Toss It In The Bin – Famous Writers On Knowing When It’s A Lost Cause.

Photo by Steve Johnson on Pexels.com You've done everything you were "supposed" to do. You brainstormed, you wrote a solid outline, you finished your first draft (perhaps revising as you went along). You hid it in a drawer long enough to get some distance, then you pulled it out, dusted it off, and... Huh. Does …

Treat Yo’Self – Famous Writers On Not Killing The Joy

So. We’ve done an awful lot of talking about how difficult revision can be; how crucial it is to the success of our work; how it should always be taken seriously, and how you should always, always kill your darlings. Sounds fun, right? I bet you can’t wait to dive right in. Fortunately, there is …

Out For Blood – Famous Writers On Killing Your Darlings

Photo by Badulescu Badulescu on Pexels.com “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it -- wholeheartedly -- and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”-Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch You knew we’d get here eventually, right? This series on the art of revision simply wouldn’t be …

Reduce The Sauce – Famous Writers On Sharpening Prose.

Photo by Katerina Holmes on Pexels.com “Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your …