You’ve likely heard of movie scenes, even whole characters, being cut from a film, forever lost during the editing process.  The same goes for books.  Sometimes, the author must make a sacrifice of something he/she spent a whole day, week, month developing because, well, it simply didn’t work out.
The process might sound like the end of a relationship or, maybe, a dystopian story where someone must die to save the planet.  For me, it’s all of the above with a little Sophie’s Cho...