: Re: Should I remove scenes that I myself find "boring"? Sometimes, I find myself writing a scene that does everything I think it should do: reveal details about the protagonist, drive the plot forward,

@Kaufman555

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I'm a relatively new to fiction, but I too have experienced the pain of writing and then reading over a dreadfully boring hunk of prose. Here are ways I handle the problem.

I wait a day. Then I cut like a butcher. I make sure key elements are incorporated nearby.
Sometimes a judicious adjectival phrase can carry the weight of a 4-5 sentence description!
I save my trimmings in a Word file especially dedicated to that story; sometimes I'll just paste cuttings at the bottom of a page, but this can get messy.

I sense that with more experience, with more hours spent tapping away at my stories, I'll be able to recognize the thought-patterns that drive me down these tedious paths. Once I learn to detect a blowsy patch ahead, I'll learn how to avoid it.

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