Never delete!!!!

Well, I'm working on a new chapter, and I have new ideas for it.  I'm going to add some stuff that wasn't there, change some things that were, and yank some stuff that won't fit any more.  That's what writing a story is all about, right?  Oh, excuse me.  Write?  LOL

If it doesn't fit any more, and you are hesitant to pull it out, try this trick I learned (the hard way) instead of deleting.  Cut out the offending section, paste it into a totally different document that is labeled 'Archives' and rework the scene.  I learned to never delete anything, because sure as shootin' I wanted it back eventually and I had no way to retrieve it.  In my opinion, no writer should ever delete anything, no matter how small a section, or how trivial it seems.  NEVER DELETE!!!!!!  Archive instead.  You can always find what you took out and rework it, or stick it somewhere else in the story.  Or, as in my case on a few occasions, find a totally different story, change the names and places, but use the circumstances of the scene in an utterly new way.  I've surprised myself in the number of times when I archived something and then later, eureka! I found a place for it.