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   Dorothy J Heydt to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
   Re: Killing Darlings   
   22 Sep 18 04:50:17   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <02dbqddgitlv0rppu83111n5me4tnp4dhl@4ax.com>,   
   Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   >   
   >Removing extraneous words that distract from my point is much easier   
   >now that I write all my serious compositions -- and, sometimes, notes   
   >that only I will ever read -- directly in hypertext.   
   >   
   >Commenting a passage out hurts much less than deleting!   
   >   
   Whatever works for you.  If there's something I want to cut out,   
   it's generally a whole scene, and if I think I may want to use it   
   elsewhere, I write it to another file and delete it from the main   
   file.   
      
   I do sometimes put little notes in [square brackets] so that I   
   can find them again by searching.  Hypertech is beyond me.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
   www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/   
      
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