Do you ever write like two versions of a scene in a book and if you do how do you decide which–
Two versions of the same scene. I do it quite frequently. Every book there will be a couple times. Usually what happens is I’m writing a scene and I’m not pleased with it and so I put it aside and I write it again the next day. And usually letting me subconscious work on it means I end up fixing it. About one out of ten times I start writing it and I realize “It was right the first way, why am I writing something new?” And then I just go back to the book, and it wasn’t that the scene was bad it’s just I had a bad day. And sometimes you do, no matter what you write you are going to think it stinks. How do I decide? It’s very instinctive, I’ve never had one like “These are both equally good” Always I know one of them is not working. In fact the best way to get over writer’s block, I find, is to write the scene anyway, have anything you can think of happen–even if it doesn’t make sense in your story–so that you get the scene out, and then attack it again the next day after you have had time to think about it.
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