#2. Ella getting married to Random Hot Essosi Man Number 3 during her hot girl summer

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21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

If nobody got me, I know the most beloved mutuals got me, lmao

Not in SOTF, but I feel like I have to have done this with some of my unpublished stuff.

Surprisingly little has gotten left on the cutting room floor (so to speak) with this one, actually. There were some scenes that had initial passes I simply didn't like, but they got cut relatively early in the drafting process/never finished & rewritten without enough fuss for me to really remember. There's also been small section of scenes that got cut just to help the flow, but generally speaking, the stuff that took hours almost always stays.

Truthfully, if anything "major" gets cut, it's likely that happens before it even gets put down. Either because it was idea building, or because it was a silly little imagined scene that I entertained myself with to fill time that I always knew would be "off screen" or I realized wouldn't fit long before the place it would have needed to go