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Published:
2020-10-19 22:06:46
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2026-10-21 02:45:32
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2026-10
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Hi friends! Here is your space to tell me about anything. If you have new story ideas, existing story ideas, or just have generic input, this is where you can share that with me! Please feel free to say anything that's on your mind, and if you've got nothing right now, this post comes back every month! Hope you're all having a good spooky month. Love you all!

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Big Jake

Have you ever been writing something, then after finishing you realize it isn’t accomplishing what you wanted so you redo it, but then realize it might have been better the way you had it before? I guess my question is how do you decide when something is good enough to be done with?

Selphie Kinneas

This is such a great question! Long answer incoming lol. I typically do not completely rewrite scenes or chapters that I feel aren't achieving what I want them to, I add to them and perfect them. When I'm struggling with feeling like I'm not getting across the goal of a scene, what I do most often is force myself to step away. Dependent on how much I'm struggling is how long I'll step away for, most commonly it's one day. After that day I will re-read what I wrote previously, this gives me completely fresh eyes to view it, and I'll often like it much more the day after than I do in the moment. Sometimes the pressure of needing your scene to accomplish something specific makes you feel like your writing isn't good enough in the moment, or isn't achieving what it needs to, but stepping away and coming back to it makes a huge difference in how you perceive it. At that point, I'm often happy with what I have, but if I'm not, I break it down super simply and ask myself what is it I want to get from this scene, and what is preventing me from getting there? An example is the recent dinner scene with Viscen and Emeline. High tension was my main goal, as was making the reader borderline uncomfortable, all while explaining what was going on with the Fused Shadow. I wrote down the bones one day, but it needed the finishes to achieve what I needed that scene to do. It felt unfinished/unsatisfactory initially, so I stepped away. I came back the next day and was overall pleased, but could tell the discomforting tension was what I needed to drizzle on top to make it perfect. After adding the touches it needed, I then felt like it hit its mark, and I was satisfied with it. This is my process most often: get down the bones, make it better later. It's much easier to get the scene down and then sprinkle in what makes it shine later. As for how I decide when something is good enough to be done with, I have to determine if what needed to happen in that scene/chapter actually happened. Did I tell just as much information as was necessary, and did I convey the feeling I need the reader to feel at this point? Did I move the story along at an adequate pace, and did I develop the appropriate characters/relationships? After stepping away and re-reading it right before posting, do I feel pleased with my work and like I achieved everything I personally wanted to achieve here? If I can read it back and feel proud and excited to share my work, it is good enough to be done with. So, the short technical answer is make sure you feel that every major point is touched on to the best of your abilities, and short general answer is simply make sure you are happy and pleased with it. The best storytelling is the kind that flows so naturally you are not actively thinking about it, then suddenly you're sitting in front of a completed scene that ran away without you. At that point you can go back and correct mistakes and add the flourishes that really make it pop. I hope that answered your question!

Big Jake

Yep, very well answered! As a side is it cool if I just send you all the notes I have on things I’m never gonna write and you can just use your super writing powers to do them for me 😂😂😂 you have enough time for that right? Lmao