Put In The Cool Scenes

Too many writers are too worried about appearing erudite, educated, and literate; they want to write something that critics going to love and thus let them into the Hall of Classics, a form of literary immortality.  

However, many people forget that when you start writing, you have to hook the readers so that they will join you for an exploration of your thoughts about some sort of existential crisis in terms of nihilistic transformations. You don't a lot of our readers going, "Wait, what the heck am I reading?" That's something you want to try to avoid at all possible cost. 

This is why you need to remember that part of what brought you into the project wasn't necessarily the characters or the plot or anything like that. It's usually because you had a lot of really great scenes that you wanted to see on paper at some point in your life. And you've realized that if you don't do this, then nobody else will. This is your chance to write those really cool scenes you've always envisioned.

Better yet, those really cool scenes will hook the readers and give them a reason to stick with you through the boring parts.

I don't care if it's having a strip poker game from beginning to end. I don't care if it's having somebody go off a cliff with a rocket pack. Everybody has a huge number of really cool scenes that they want to see realized, that they want to see done in their lifetime. Better yet, those cool scenes are probably something that your readers want to see as well. So give the readers something really interesting and put stuff in that you think will be the really cool scenes and go for it. 

You're gonna have to get through this mess anyway so you may as well as have fun with it. Put in those scenes you want to see and odds are good your readers will thank you for it.

If it doesn't work, you're gonna know you're gonna know why it doesn't work, but at least you got it out of your system, or you created something for the darlings file. But the bottom line is that when you're doing all this huge amount of writing with these characters, you're going to want to have fun with them. So remember put in those cool scenes. 

Ultimately, don't worry about the critics. Have some fun, and put in those really cool scenes.