{"id":211,"date":"2012-08-17T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/deleted-scenes\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:31:08","slug":"deleted-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/deleted-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleted Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derrick Hibbard (at derrickhibbard.com<\/a>) just recently related that one of his favorite things about DVDs are the extras that come with them.\u00a0 You’ll get to see behind the scenes featurettes, watch outtakes and sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to see certain deleted or altered scenes.<\/p>\n

Almost every writer knows the feeling.\u00a0 You start with something you feel fully engaged with, but along the way, you realize that what you’re writing is either poorly implemented, or needless for the story to progress.\u00a0 You want your readers to feel like they don’t have to trudge through the muddled parts of your tale – often, you want to get them right into the thick of the action.\u00a0 Every intricate detail is important, and if you have a chapter or a section that doesn’t flow just right, it ends up on the chopping block.<\/p>\n

Hibbard knows the feeling all too well.\u00a0 His editors gave the first chapter of his novel, This Side of Eden<\/a>, the axe.\u00a0 It wasn’t a bad chapter, as you can see if you visit his blog.\u00a0 It just didn’t fit with everything else that he was working with at the time.<\/p>\n

In some ways, it’s a blessing when you can take a few pages that you’ve written and move them into the recycling bin.<\/p>\n

There are some times when you write yourself into a corner that you can’t write your way out of.\u00a0 As an author, you’re always looking at yourself and critiquing.\u00a0 Two of my novels in the Tellest<\/a> series are already out, and a third is on the way.\u00a0 The first book, The Bindings of Fate<\/a>, has a particularly muddled section that, over time, I’ve become a little disappointed in.\u00a0 It’s not exactly necessary.\u00a0 I wrote the scenes just so that the protagonist could get a little more face time – a little more time in front of the reader.\u00a0 The biggest hurdle that it’s become, if you can call it that, is that I now have to write around it.<\/p>\n

I’m happy with where that little sidestep led me.\u00a0 Not only did it stitch a nice little path for my story to take, but it somehow keeps sneaking its way into the ongoing\u00a0story.\u00a0 The inclusion of, what I thought at the time, was a fluff piece had proven to be just as important as anything else I’ve written.\u00a0 It’s a strange sensation.<\/p>\n

On the hind end of working on the conclusion to the first trilogy in the Tellest series, I’m noticing that there are some new muddy parts in this novel.\u00a0 Inevitably, I’m going to have to go back and change these ones, or cut them\u00a0out entirely.\u00a0 It’s just an endless cycle, and one that I’ve learned to embrace fully.<\/p>\n

Maybe some day I’ll let readers see the scraps that have fallen on the cutting room floor.\u00a0 I commend Mr. Hibbard for doing so.\u00a0 For me, I’m not quite there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derrick Hibbard (at derrickhibbard.com) just recently related that one of his favorite things about DVDs are the extras that come with them.\u00a0 You’ll get to see behind the scenes featurettes, watch outtakes and sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to see certain deleted or altered scenes. Almost every writer knows the feeling.\u00a0 You start with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-3p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}