Which part of my draft am I keeping only because I love it?

The passage you’re attached to that the piece doesn’t need, and what happens if it goes.


When to use
When a draft feels baggy and every part of it seems too good to lose.
Time
5 min

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There’s a part of this draft I suspect I’m keeping because I like it, not because the piece needs it. Help me find it. First say in one sentence what the piece is about, going only by what’s on the page. Then go through it section by section and label each one: carries the point, supports it, or wanders from it. Name the best-written part that wanders. That’s probably the one I love. Show me how the lines on either side would join if it were gone, and say plainly what the piece would lose and what it would gain. If nothing really wanders, say so. Don’t delete anything and don’t flatter me. The decision is mine. Here is the draft: Be direct. No padding and no reassurance I did not ask for.

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