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The Edit: Know When It’s Time to Fix, Throw Away … and Keep

Stephen King had this to say in On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” Becoming too fond of a turn of phrase or a particular illustration, King said, puts a writer’s self-centeredness on display. King wasn’t the first to urge writers to ruthlessly edit their work. That bit of advice has been attributed to writers of all eras,…
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