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Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing Your Darlings
The Thoroughly Unauthorized Summary of Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing Your Darlings
From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/02/24/writing-excuses-episode-4-killing-your-darlings/
In which we learn that sometimes little darlings need to get the hatchet because they just don't fit anymore, that keeping them on tap for the right time and place may make it easier to cut them out right now, and that someone else can see which ones need the axe better than we can. Oh, and Howard spits Diet Pepsi on the table when someone suggests that our first book really should be killed.
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Practice cutting your darlings. Write more, and don't worry about cutting this little darling, because you can always make more.
Only three episodes behind.
From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/02/24/writing-excuses-episode-4-killing-your-darlings/
In which we learn that sometimes little darlings need to get the hatchet because they just don't fit anymore, that keeping them on tap for the right time and place may make it easier to cut them out right now, and that someone else can see which ones need the axe better than we can. Oh, and Howard spits Diet Pepsi on the table when someone suggests that our first book really should be killed.
( Many details . . . )
Practice cutting your darlings. Write more, and don't worry about cutting this little darling, because you can always make more.
Only three episodes behind.
