Deleting Scenes

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but one of my least favorite things about writing is deleting scenes. Not just any old scene, but a scene that just works. A scene that clicked for you when you were writing it and your fingers flew across the keyboard. A scene you love.

So if this is all true, then why would we be deleting it? Simple. Because even though the scene works, even though it is perfect and you love it, it simply doesn't work FOR THIS STORY. And unfortunately you can't really save it and use it again. The scene was written for Chararacters A & B and it isn't gonna fit another set of characters that well. The next set aren't as likely to say and do everything that this set would (Or I hope they aren't. If you write were you can interchange all your scenes throughout your characters, I have to say that I would get tired of your characters pretty darn quickly.)

So take that scene and remember what they would have done had they been put in that situation. And use it to help them be round, fully fleshed characters for you and the reader.