#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...

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[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 ;)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Totally. Which is why I do keep writing it anyway. Early on, I had started a chapter and didn't really know where it was going and moved on with it half-finished. Later came back, copied and pasted it into a separate document, then canned it.

And TWO YEARS LATER pulled it out, did a heavy edit, finished it, and stuck it back in. So yeah. :D