{"id":722,"date":"2010-07-30T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/07\/30\/sacrificing-a-scene-you-like-for-a-scene-you-need\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:15:00","slug":"sacrificing-a-scene-you-like-for-a-scene-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/07\/30\/sacrificing-a-scene-you-like-for-a-scene-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrificing a Scene You Like for a Scene You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a great scene. I introduced fun new characters,  some cool shit for them to blow up, a whole mess of awesome.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotta go.<\/p>\n<p>Doen&#8217;t fit. What I need instead of all my new shiny toys is a quiet word from a entirely different fellow, a much less engaging character, but one who, ultimately, will be more relevant to the theme of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>I know, this is all unduly mysterious. It comes down to this: I have to sacrifice a scene I like for a scene the book needs. I think I finally, finally understand that annoying injunction, &#8220;kill your darlings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah. I get it. The darlings are now gutted corpses on the cutting room floor. Are you satisfied, you bloodthirsty Muse?<\/p>\n<p>Has this ever happened to you? What do you do with the chopped scenes? Personally, I hope to resurrect them in some other context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a great scene. I introduced fun new characters, some cool shit for them to blow up, a whole mess of awesome. It&#8217;s gotta go. Doen&#8217;t fit. What I need instead of all my new shiny toys is a quiet word from a entirely different fellow, a much less engaging character, but one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}