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#PennedPossibilities 796 — Have you had to cut anything significant from your WIP?
Plenty of times! But as I do this for a living, wasted words are wasted work, so I try to get everything right first time round.
(One of my two current WIPs is a problem child, and is now on the third re-write. If I can't stick the landing this time round, it's getting dumped: obviously I was over-ambitious, and the sunk cost fallacy applies.)
@cstross how do you differentiate between "this doesn't work" and "I need to be perfect"?
#PennedPossibilities Footnote: it's probably not getting dumped—draft 3 is 80% complete and that first 80% is solid, the last 20% is going to be straightforward in principle. But I don't normally need to rewrite (as opposed to self-edit/redraft), much less rewrite *twice*.
Is this the WIP that spawned its own sequel before it got finished?
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