WIP Pruning

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Geoff

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Aug 24, 2014
Kent
Pruning a First Draft WIP Novel can certainly be a Catharic process, a cut here, a chop there, get rid of the waste, that sentence can go, actually the paragraph doesn't do much, don't hold back, go for it, chapter gone too!. You're on a roll, the end result will be worth it .. got to keep cutting … .and finally, yes finally last page …. all done! Right, check that Word Count.

39,000 words ... gulp.
 
And yet, with other art, such as painting, music and film, in time, people are more interested in what was covered over and the outtakes and what ended up on the cutting room floor. I've sometimes thought that we writers should offer the 'author's cut' of our book.
 
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