I mean unless you're writing an operator's manual for a forklift or something, *nothing* you're writing is actually "necessary"https://twitter.com/BlasianBytch/status/1328248183168901120?s=20 …
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A lot of people who want every writer to be Hemingway don't seem to fully get this Terry Pratchett and David Foster Wallace both used footnotes and digressions for very different purposes but neither Discworld nor Infinite just would be the same if you chopped all that out
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Not just that "the story wouldn't be as fun or as interesting", it literally WOULD NOT BE THE SAME STORY Every digression is a set of brushstrokes in the painting just as much as any of the "major plot points" are
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I wonder what they'd think of The Princess Bride then. There's a book that by the Kill Your Darlings standards is indulgent as all hell. It has long passages where the story switches perspective just to talk about some section of the book the authour isn't including.
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It's a book whose main charm is a series of strictly unnecessary comments on stuff that is explicitly said by the writer to be unimportant.
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