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Get everything out in the first draft. Let him ramble on all you like. Put the first draft aside for a month or so. Go back and re-read, and be absolutely ruthless in your culling when re-reading ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T05:26:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
Get everything out in the first draft. Let him ramble on all you like. Put the first draft aside for a month or so. Go back and re-read, and be absolutely ruthless in your culling when re-reading his rambling. If you still can't tell if he's talking too much, hand the ms off to a good beta reader with the explicit instruction that you need to know if/when Mr. Motormouth is overtaking the narrative.
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2016-07-20T09:42:45Z (over 8 years ago)
Original score: 4