[stylist] When pruning leaves gaps

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Helene,

Oh, yeah!  And I have also found that I will cut something, then forget to
remove a reference to it in the dialog of another plotline, then, which I
suddenly realize will make no sense to the reader...  One of the dangers of
a long piece of fiction, I guess.  A time or two, I've caught instances of
that happening in a book I'm reading, which is very confusing until it
suddenly dawns on me what happened.  /smile/  Usually it's when a
commercially popular sequel got rushed through editing.  So I guess we all
do it.

Good luck!

Tami Smith-Kinney

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Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] When pruning leaves gaps

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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