There is often a need to add the brilliant thing to your piece. Often the overal composition, flow, momentum of things is more important than that. You are creating things within a composition but then the bundle of things you are creating is its own composition gets its own identity dynamics. As a creator it’s hard to see it and it is easily undervalued.
Cut cut cut writing advice from a writer from Second City
Rick Rubin calls it ruthless edit. “We have 15 songs. The goal is to get to 10. We ask ourselves which are 5-6 songs we cannot live without. Than what is the four songs that doesn’t make it worse but make it better.