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Q&A Writing garbage to see if the characters do something interesting?

Something I've learned as a programmer that translates directly to writing is that quite a lot of what you write will not make it to the final product, and you have to be OK with that. A lot of wr...

posted 7y ago by Chris Sunami‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:10:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/30850
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Chris Sunami‭ · 2019-12-08T07:10:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Something I've learned as a programmer that translates directly to writing is that quite a lot of what you write will not make it to the final product, and you have to be OK with that. A lot of writing is for your own personal learning or exploration. If that weren't true, we'd all just publish our first drafts and have done with it.

So don't call it "garbage." If it isn't your final draft, then it's just another piece of non-final writing, and quite possibly as essential to the end product as is anything else.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-10-16T20:18:01Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 13