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What do you do when you're 30 pages into writing a short

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What do you do when you're 30 pages into writing a short story and realize only 10 pages of it are usable?
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>>7824435
Throw away 20 pages.
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>>7824439
P much
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>short story
>30 pages

>>7824439
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>>7824435
I edit it down to what's usable and keep writing

I'd rather fix things immediately as I go so I don't forget to fix it later.
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Quit writing. Most people say edit but that's BS. If its crap
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>>7824472
This. Just kill yourself bro
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>>7824439
>>7824472
>>7824476

Strangely helpful.

Ima take these 10 pages and weave them into gold.
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rewrite it? durrr
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If the finger is gangrenous I will cut it off the save the hand, and I'll do it without ego. I might loose work, but better to loose part of something to save the rest than to mar the whole thing to make something work when it doesn't.

I've thrown away manuscripts simply because I was not happy with what I'd written, and would have felt genuinely wrong attempting to dump such mediocrity on anyone. It was garbage, I accepted it, and I moved on to better projects.
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>>7824639
>loose
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>>7824444
I'd rather call it a novelette, desu
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>>7824435
>short story
>30 pages

A short story is 20 pages tops.
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>>7824435
>>7824439
>>7824444
>>7824503
>>7824666
>pages
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>>7824435
finish it and edit it

pussy
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