TGTD: Friday

Everyone seems a bit puzzled about “the importance of Fridays,” which is just weird. We’re not leaving clues. Sheesh.

The reason I mention Friday is:

This coming Friday is the last day of the month and is, therefore, the end of the The Great Tea Debacle.

This is the really important bit:

You MUST have your final word count sent to me by 11:59, NOVEMBER 30th. 

Or else, because that final week’s word count becomes compromised, I will revert to the word count which would have been posted this past Sunday on the graph, if only that darned Castle Debacle hadn’t stolen our graph!

Friday mystery solved.

(“So what’s Castle Debacle, then?” you ask. Well, that’s not to be solved here. Or at least, not now. Mysteeeeerious!)

Here you go.

Sometimes, while writing, I begin a scene that I enjoy working on, and is well-laid out in my head. But as I’m writing it, I begin to realize that the scene shouldn’t be there. It needs to be distinctly not there, and alluded to in the next, and later, scenes, if you follow me. Sometimes, I regret it, because I’m enjoying the scene. That’s the case here. I sort of like writing Sheriff Alan Peyton. I’ve referred to him elsewhere, though he hasn’t been present, and I wanted to meet him. But as I write, I realize that I don’t need to meet him. I have painted the shape of the man through other’s words, now I shouldn’t fill it.

Otherwise, I’m grateful that I noticed this when I was only 400 words into the scene, because it means I can erase it and get back on track. It means I won’t lose my rhythm and get bogged down. I can fix the problem before it kills a day of writing for me. So that’s always nice.

So, here’s 400 words of a scene I won’t use, about a character I won’t have. It’s deleted material, isn’t that exciting? If nothing else, I like it.