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How does it relate?

Don't write things that aren't teaching you something, or things that aren't progressing your book.

But these scenes you're describing are related to your book. The question you have to ask yourself is how. How is that skirmish tied into events in your book? Why does the curse-born princess of a bygone age matter 200 years past her death? Give just enough detail in these scenes to provide an answer.

If you can't answer that, then it's not related to your book. And if it's not related to your book, it has to be a challenge to make you a better writer. And if it's neither, you're playing.

That's not to say that play is a bad thing. However, playing under the pretense that you're working is.

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