The Art of Deletion

[misqueue]

Man, I hate cutting scenes from stories. I do it pretty ruthlessly, but I still hate it. I have far too many little scenes between Kurt & Carole and Kurt & Mrs. Anderson in this next part of ITWOS. It's ridiculous (for length reasons). At this rate, Kurt & Blaine will never see each other naked again.

So many feelings about Kurt and mother figures! I'll try to work out which ones are most important to keep, and then (at some later point) see if I can do a Mother's Day side fic or something and make use of (at least some of) what I end up cutting.

I think the scene where Kurt & Carole make Julia Child's coq au vin together, get tipsy 'cause of the vin, and Carole says 'coq' too much might be the best candidate for a side fic. I'll just rework the conversation to be about Kurt's relationship trouble with Blaine in DWS instead of Kurt wrestling with feelings of vengeance and dithering over pressing charges against Sebastian. Which solves the problem of my persistent inability to grok Kurt's decision to 'take the high road' in "Michael". I'll just elide any direct treatment of it. YAY. Problem solved.

I am perpetually behind with comment and message replies. I'll get to them! <3

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[stultiloquentia]

The biggest text folder on my damned hard drive is labeled "Cuttings and Compost". And anything I don't think is repurposable -- that is what dvd commentaries are for! \o/

[misqueue]

Ah, that sounds like a good idea! I am not nearly that well organized with my off cuts; I have far too many abandoned zombie drafts and documents of notes lurching about in various fanfiction directories. Some of them occasionally get a second chance (or bits of them do). I like the idea of putting all the scraps in one place though. I may put that on my 'to do' list for my next bout of reshuffling stuff. :)