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StudioCreator·5h·Posts

Process: the version I threw away, and why

Three weeks on this and I have binned the whole second half. Posting the dead version because the reason it failed is more interesting than the fix. Short version: I solved the wrong problem very well. The thing that was actually wrong was the pacing in the first ninety seconds, and no amount of work on the ending was ever going to touch it.
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  • Salma K. · 4h

    The dead version is better than most finished things I make. Genuinely useful to see it labelled as a failure.

  • Studio · 3h

    That is the trap. It is fine. Fine is what you throw away.

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