Comments on: Little Darlings & Why They Must Die..for Real https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:35:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Save The Little Darlings « The Road to Writing https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1028 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:35:39 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1028 […] could do as Kristen Lamb suggests and ruthlessly delete them. That certainly “kills the little darlings.” Of course, if you’re like me, you […]

]]> By: Donna https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1027 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:05:13 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1027 Brilliant post and I love the picture lol!

]]> By: Nigel Blackwell https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1026 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:03:07 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1026 Oh boy. Now I have to aspire to be a literary kleptomaniac!
Old university quote on publication of a paper:
Less reputable colleague, “I wish I’d said that.”
Author, “I’m sure you will.”

]]> By: Julie Musil https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1025 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:27:07 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1025 Awesome post, thanks. I especially like the “flowers covering the grave” part. It really makes a writer think!

]]> By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1024 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:52 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1024 Thanks Micah. Yeah, I looked for the origins and came up with Faulkner, but that doesn’t surprise me someone else said it even earlier. Wasn’t it T.S. Eliot who said, “Good writers borrow. Great writers steal”? LOL.

]]> By: Micah https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1023 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:38:30 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1023 It was turn-of-the-century taste maker Arthur Quiller-Couch, who coined it in his 1916 treatise “On Writing.”

“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.” -Quiller-Couch.

A truly unique fellow. He went by the name Q and would probably be writing a blog not unlike your own if he lived today.

]]> By: Terrell Mims https://authorkristenlamb.com/2010/08/little-darlings-why-they-must-die-for-real/#comment-1022 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:36:21 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-1022 Lovespell and lying in a fetal position. (Drop mic…walk offstage)

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