Do you guys write scenes you know you will throw away?

@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:30:57 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

I often write scenes and even get as far as thumbnailing them out with the knowledge they may not make it into the final product. I don't necessarily go in knowing I'll throw them away, but I treat any scene as potentially disposable if it isn't the most efficient, effective or entertaining way to get across the necessary info, even if it has jokes or moments I really like in it. Sometimes it isn't obvious a scene doesn't work until you can look at it from the broader perspective of a chapter, or see how many comic pages it will actually turn into, or how many pages of the comic will be two people in the same place, talking and so not visually interesting, etc.