Killing your darlings

[Zoom]

...I just wrote a scene I'm really proud of. After I read it over a few times to bask in my glory, I realized it wasn't going to work with the rest of the story. I have to get rid of it.

Wanna start a Darling Graveyard?

[sapphire]

Aw, sad. That's even worse than writer's block.

Yes, let's start a darlings graveyard. (You can always use the awesome scene some other time, though - it might need a bit of tweaking, but maybe it'll fit into something you write later.)

[A Mask Among Many]

Where are we starting this? I have so many of these locked inside my head: cool scenes that would never work in the story I mean...