Kill Your Darlings

NOIRTRASH

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I think one of the milestones along the road to writer maturity is killing a favorite character when it makes the story better. I'm not speaking of 1970s tear jerker, LUVSTORY. I'm talking of strangling Cinderella and running off with her evil step sister, Cruella, or the shrew step sister, Exasperella.
 
"Murder your darlings" is a quote from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's writing advice to University students.

What he meant was that the piece of prose you think is the best part of your story, is possibly inappropriate or over-written. Deleting it can make the whole story read better.
 
Like in Walking Dead where every (mid)season ender has someone die so it can be so 'raw' and 'new' and 'real'?
 
Ogg has the right of it and this thread discussion was just up a few months ago.
 
Exactly. But I advise digging the hole out in the desert first. That way you don't have to sit around digging a hole with a dead body for company.

Also Lye, great stuff. Gets rid of all kinds of evidence.

What? Oh ...

Never mind a word I said. Just rambling on about nothing.
 
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