Day: August 13, 2007

Killing Spree #1

Rather embarassing how easily I was able to cull 1,500 words from ‘What happened while Don was watching the game’ (see previous post). That’s 6 pages even I could see the story can do without. Admittedly, it does hurt, but as the cowboy says in the Far Side cartoon, “it’s a good kind of hurt”. […]

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Some Serious Darling-Killing

“Kill your darlings” is a widespread piece of writing advice given by editors, almost without actually looking at a given manuscript. And it’s always justified. Writers have a tendency to be overly wordy and a complemental tendency to fall in love with every sentence they write, and editors have the tough job of cutting acceptable […]

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