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Don't abandon those great lines, cool situations or funky characters that you had to cut from your script for one reason or another.
Save them. Use them.
I recently worked with a screenwriter whose script ran twenty pages too long. It's a hilarious, talky and extremely witty screenplay, but some of the best lines and situations had to go.
The author was reluctant to cut, but after I explained to her that certain beats and lines weren't married to that particular script and that she could use them in her next screenplay, it became less painful.
If you've written more than one script or you've started and stopped on a few and you have a character or set piece of clever exchange of dialogue--put it in a file for later use.
Why waste it? You might have to reshape the context it was used in for the next project, but a funny line or a clever line can work anywhere.
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