Ouch!

[lebateleur]

I just cut two pages out of a five-page fic. They were good pages, dammit. They were funny where I wanted humor and ironic where I wanted irony and they said something about the characters as well. They just didn't belong in the story I'm currently writing.

I write at such a snail's pace that losing two pages is a heavy blow. We're talking about three week's worth of writing here. At least this is slightly offset by the knowledge that I now have a better piece of fiction.

Urgh.

これで以上です。

Comments

[scribblemoose]

Ow. I feel your pain. It sucks, doesn't it? So tempting to cling on to things just because they're written. You're right, though, if you know it's not what you want, best to cut. It'll probably come in useful somewhere else, though.