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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Lol the "efficiency" discourse from writing classes has really done a number on people's psyches hasn't it It is necessary for me to enjoy writing the thing and people to enjoy reading it If you take away something that people enjoy, you have removed something necessary
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"Kill your darlings" is one of those pithy, vague sayings that's gotten a lot of traction because it sounds really badass and tough and mean, and there's always a ready market for getting advice that feels like abuse so it feels like you're really doing something
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But like all such pieces of advice if you really dissect it's just a tautology "Only keep the stuff that's actually good and get rid of the stuff that's bad"
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I wish I could remember where I read it, but my absolute favorite bit of writing advice is, "Be sure the right words are next to each other." OH, I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT
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There was an epic troll when Douglas Adams and Terry Jones released the full text of Starship Titanic for free with the book still in print Specifically, "every word of the book"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
An ASCII text dump of every word in the book, in alphabetical order Once you had that, of course, you just had to put them in whatever order you felt made the best story A little bit of audience participation
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Did they do each instance of each word, or did they offer, like, a single instance of "the" and you were allowed to duplicate it as many times as you'd like?
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Each word had a numeral next to it telling you how many times it occurred in the text, it started with "a (5,219)"
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