At times, I have written whole scenes, or several whole scenes, with the explicit intention that they will not in any way be used in the story - things that happened before the story ever started, for instance, or would only have happened if he had gotten really drunk on a space station where she just happened to be staying and he knew where her room was - just to hear the characters better and get a clearer, deeper sense of what they're like and how they respond to things, because until I write it I usually don't know (although I can often be led into speculating, which is always a mistake on my part).
I was not aware of your Fourth Wall Terrors. Hunh. But anyhow, I resonate to the utility of "unused" scenes. And your speculation about the snow-shoveling narratives cracked me up because I instantly recognized that it was right.
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Date: 2009-01-09 09:53 pm (UTC)I was not aware of your Fourth Wall Terrors. Hunh. But anyhow, I resonate to the utility of "unused" scenes. And your speculation about the snow-shoveling narratives cracked me up because I instantly recognized that it was right.