Questioning the Muse

Once upon a time this plot line showed up at the mid point and the whole time I was writing my brain was going, really?
I mean the seeds were planted almost from the very beginning so it doesn't just randomly show up on the page, but still, it wasn't planned. And since I'm at the mid-point, that point where sometimes it feels like you need to drop a dead body to shake things up, I wonder if that's what's going on here. I wonder if I was sitting there and my brain was going, what's the worst thing that could happen now, and I dropped this new line in just because.
I'm not sure.
But I do believe in the Fast Draft method, which means I write and write and write without stopping and then I go back and revise.
So maybe the answer here is to write the line, and then cut it if it doesn't work.
Maybe by the end of the book I'll look at this line as gift from the writing gods.
BUT
what if it's not a gift at all? What if it's a distraction?!? The whole last half of the book will have to be rewritten because you can't just surgically remove a whole story line and not have it affect every other line in the story. You just can't.
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