What to Keep in and What to Leave Out of the Book

The book is 400 pages long, but that's still heavily edited to what actually happened if you wrote it all down. We had at least probably somewhere between eight and 10 other stories, other characters, which had sub characters and other characters inside it. And we really had to look at two things. One, did they write a pineapple? Because some of them have extraordinary escape stories, but they weren't involved with what Scott created. The second one was, how much, how much relationship with the prom do these people have?"