: Re: Writing garbage to see if the characters do something interesting? I need a change ~ 80% of the way through my story. At the moment, I'm just throwing my characters into different combinations

@BetL639

Is written garbage better than leaving the page blank? Infinitely!

Does every page you write need to be part of your novel? No!

If you are seeing weaknesses in the structure of your story, and you know what you need to create to strengthen it, then that is what you should write.

If you see the weakness but don't know how to fix it, writing is still the answer, but you need to write without making any promises (to yourself or your characters) that what comes out is going to be a part of the final story.

Garbage writing is experimentation. If it works, great! If not... nobody ever needs to know that that horrible scene ever existed. That is why we call it garbage... to prepare it for its most likely final resting place.

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