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Cut it. No question. It doesn't belong and it's neatness won't satisfy the reader anywhere near as much as it appears to satisfy you. Ask yourself what's so great about that line that makes it wort...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T04:51:41Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/20100 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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mwo
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2019-12-08T04:51:41Z (almost 5 years ago)
Cut it. No question. It doesn't belong and it's neatness won't satisfy the reader anywhere near as much as it appears to satisfy you. Ask yourself what's so great about that line that makes it worth damaging the integrity of the story? Merciless editing is a required skill for an author. No matter if you're absolutely in love with that line, no matter if it's the funniest thing anybody ever wrote, you know perfectly well it doesn't make any sense. Cut it, and write a better conclusion from the proper PoV. You can do it. Select that paragraph now, delete it, and save your document. You'll see it a bit more clearly after that and a better line will be along soon. The various suggestions to help you keep it are smart, and correct, or at the very least, _nice_, but really they're just telling you things you want to hear. That's not how good editing works. Be strong, select it, and press delete.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-12-15T23:24:08Z (almost 9 years ago)
Original score: 0