I recently deleted a plot point, which decimated two late-occuring chapters. The action was gone, but I there was still of lot of description that I wanted to keep and also some action that was related to the deleted episode. The combined two chapters originally were about 30 pages. I wanted to see if I could still salvage a chapter out of the remains of these.
I knew it was going to be tricky and I didn't want to do it on the computer. I needed a format where I could see all 30 pages and figure out what could be kept and what had to go. I would be keeping whole pages, so highlighting wasn't going to be a good idea. What I ended up doing was literally cutting and pasting. I snipped out the scenes that work and glued them to clean pages. Then I spread them out on the floor and arranged them in an order that made sense and felt good. The result is a pretty nice draft of the chapter that will end the first part of the book. I can't believe it worked out so well.
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