I have learned something over this last week about the writing process. Now I follow this procedure:
1) Write up one scene/chapter at a time.
2) Let sit, one hour to one day.
3) Add anything needed.
4) Cut what isn't working.
5) Shift order of action if needed.
6) Crucial: if the changes add up to more than twenty percent of the scene word count, or take more than fifty percent of the time it took to originally write the scene, discard the draft. Consider it to have been a practice run, but don't use it as a reference.
7) Start the procedure again.
For number six, I might reduce the trigger to ten percent of the word count depending on how things work.
This should save me a ton of writing time.
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