#justwriterthings

[kungfuwaynewho]

When you're writing a scene and it doesn't advance the plot, and it's not revealing anything new about the character, and it's thematically redundant to an earlier scene that did both of those things, but you just...keep...writing...it...anyway...

Comments

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Get it out of your system and kick it out when you go over the completed script again? Well I guess that's what you do, I'm no writer so what do I knowXD

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Keep writing anyway! If it needs to be written, you'll have to write it. Remember that we writers are merely humble vessels for the unwritten stories.

Maybe you will cut the scene from the book you're working on in the end, and maybe you won't use it as is in another story - but it's worth something, and somehow, someday, you'll need either it or the experience of having written it. Trust me.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

I agree with the above. It wants out, let it out. It can go in the can later. It may end up replacing the prior scene or bits of it will be incorporated. Or it will go in the can ;)

[icepixie]

I do this all. the. time. A lot of times it's for fanfic, though, where it can be justified by "awwww, but it's cute!"