Vampy Black: Leftovers

What do you do with leftovers?

I'm not talking about the ones you have in your fridge, these are leftover words you have from a chapter you just edited and made tight.

You know, tight.

It is that feeling you get when a chapter just sings, it has a great beginning, finish, and ending, and it does not need another word added to it. Only now, you have these extra paragraphs leftover from your clean up job, and they have no place to go. And yes, luck would have it "this information will be important later" so tossing them in the bin is not an option either.

So they could be composted, and form the seeds for another new chapter - which would be a lot of work.

Or they could be folded in later, you know, saved as an ingredient for another chapter and sprinkled in here and there, hoping nobody will notice you fluffed out a meal with bits of an older one. They won't, of course, but that is a lot of work, and the fact is someone may notice, or it may be more work to pass through and fact-drop in the things that need to be said.

Not to mention there is a whole other bit of dialog that the second book in this series depends on hiding in here.

I want to switch characters though, I have to - we were with this character long enough and the focus needs to shift back to our primary. Only my problem is the next chapter kicks off the roller coaster to the end of the book, and putting this information (or as another chapter)  in later would derail that ride.

So I am back to making this chapter less tight, or changing the order of the information so it comes earlier and does not ruin the tick-tick-tick of suspense I brought forth. So I need some time to think about this, to get that dialog in, and present the information so it doesn't derail things (any more so than this character has already derailed things for our heroine).

Lots of thinking to do today....