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There is a well-known writing tip that advises beginning writers to pick out their favorite passage, dialog, scene, or plotline in their novel – and to delete it. Your favorite material is not necessarily your best material, and it could be your worst.

Self-Indulgence Can Harm Your Writing

I think this is probably the biggest difference between professional quality writing and beginners in fiction.

Thank you, Lisa, for your comment! I have heard it said about new novelists that they tend to stuff everything and the kitchen sink into their first novels.