[stylist] When pruning leaves gaps
Robert Newman
newmanrl at cox.net
Thu Apr 9 22:44:07 UTC 2009
Pruning out pieces of a finished body of work is like surgically removing
small parts of a living organism; you never know if you are going to cut
into the wrong spot and maybe remove a supporting part of something
critical to the health or even the life of the story.
Robert Leslie Newman
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-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:10 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] When pruning leaves gaps
Yes! 05558When I type a story from a previous manuscript, I always have to
be
careful not to cut anything out until I've reread the entire piece, or I
have to put it back in because something important hangs on it.
What I find is that I sometimes have to throw out half the story if
something doesn't work, and just go on from there.
Lori
In a message dated 4/7/09 2:14:31 AM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:
> I am still pruning away any unneccessary clutter from my novel. Some
> subplots can very neatly be cut out. At other times it seems that when
> you try pruning it leaves gaps.
>
> Has anyone else found that to be the case?
>
> Helene
>
>
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