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3 Reasons It’s Ok to Hoard

3 Reasons It’s Ok to Hoard by bigpulp

This advice goes against the current zeitgeist, and we wholeheartedly agree with it! (Big Pulp is contrary by nature.) A new post on the Write Practice blog urges writers to save everything they write, even the crap. Especially the crap. Why?

  1. You can read your old crappy writing and feel really good about skills today!
  2. Your terrible story might have a neat idea you can use later, when your skills are more developed.
  3. You can use a deleted scene to tease a novel without giving too much away or spoiling the plot. If a cut scene is particularly strong, you can offer it as a freebie for people who sign up for your mailing list, or even turn it into a stand-alone story.

Read the full post here

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