And the moral of that is, said the Duchess ...

[truepenny]

Today, my word count on Summerdown jumped from fifty-three thousand some to sixty thousand and sixty-one. Much of that wordage--like, way more than half--is not new, but comes from the Great Purge back in February.

Today's lesson? Don't throw that away, you might need it!

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[larryhammer]

Reduce, reuse, recycle -- the writer's mantra.

---L.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I keep a kill-file of everything I cut that's more than a couple of sentences long. Only rarely used anything out of it, but sometimes; I like to have it there.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Ah, the satisfaction of recouping words!