>Kill your darlings Why?
That’s an expression I’ve only heard in advertising, usually said by a fat creative director ladyboss who is big on herself.
>>24760930Pedophile jews hate when you have a cultural ethos they didn‘t sell you.
Because darlings rarely sell. It’s advice to unpublished writers who keep trying to get their darling published but no one will buy it from them. If you want to be published and your shit isn’t selling, you need to try something else.
Tao Lin told me to just put my darlings aside and save them for later
>>24760930that picture gave me PTSD flashbacks to the Chinese cat blender video that was spammed on Twitter last year
>>24760995Why are listening to that gook?
>>24760930Sometimes I’ll have a cool thing to say but it’s a distraction from the point I’m trying to make >>24760995This is good advice Maybe you can pull it out laterAnd you can have a gallery of darlings that you can look at and they will make you smile
>>24760930because otherwise you waste your whole life trying to hype up your darlings
>>24760930Because if people wanted to watch you jerking yourself off they'd subscribe to your OnlyFans.
>>24760934If you got into writing you'd hear it there too.
It means you shouldn't be afraid to remove parts of your project if they don't serve or fit into the overall whole, even if it's an idea you're really proud of.
>>24761673That's only good advice if you're trying to write something that's ideas efficient. Terrible advice for a maximalist.
It's just a nice way of saying the idea you think is really good isn't really that good and to be a good writer you should be able to parcel out what is unimportant to your overall story/goal.
>>24762020Who besides the author himself should determine what is or is not important to his story?
>>24762026The people you want to read your story.
>>24762031Weak.
>>24762033Beta readers and editors exist for a reason. Your perspective on your own work will be the most precious especially as a new author. Sometimes your editors are right. You don't always know what's best.
>>24762037No.
>>24762041If you want to journal, journal. If you want to write stories or posit ideas for other people then their opinions matter.
>>24762043Good luck with that.
>>24760930Noooo!!! Kitty is in prison! I bet she can see the tasty food but cant escape her prison!
>>24760930It's a deceptively complex phrase. Most authors hang onto poisonous, awkward, unnecessary sentences because it means SO MUCH to the story that it's there.Just assume it won't. Edit down a draft where you get rid of everything absolutely unnecessary to the main plot, and then reintroduce the elements you find you did need in more natural ways.It's like any other writing rule, it's just a tool for you to pick up and use if it's what will get you to where you want to go. It's for when you've written yourself into a bloated corner without realizing it and just need to have an everything must go sale to get your head clear.
>>24762377Um sorry sweetie everything I write is perfect the first time and YOU just don't GET IT!
>>24760986It's a shame there's no way for authors to go straight to market and cut the whole Jewish cabal of publishing out of the picture. Otherwise people might notice that this sort of advice just feeds the parasite.
>>24762486Amazing, that's why you're here and not on a book tour.
>>24762709They just don't get it...
>>24762588You can self-publish.
>>24762588Then you self-publish and no one likes the shit you wrote either. People want to read something worth reading. Not just incoherent babble.
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