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Killing Your Darlings: Learning to Love Ruthless Editing

Killing Your Darlings: Learning to Love Ruthless Editing

In On Writing, Stephen King famously encourages writers to “kill their darlings.” This advice is intended to make writers less precious about their writing and be willing to cut content that isn’t serving the overall book. But how do you know what constitutes a...

Diagnosing Dialogue: How to Craft Crackling Conversations

Diagnosing Dialogue: How to Craft Crackling Conversations

Deft dialogue makes readers fall in love with a character (or love to hate them!) … but how do you write compelling conversations in fiction? Despite the fact that we have conversations every day, writing dialogue in a narrative is a different beast entirely. How does...

Why Self-Editing Is a Skill All Writers Should Develop

Why Self-Editing Is a Skill All Writers Should Develop

Few things are as satisfying for writers than typing “The End” when they finish their manuscripts.  In reality, this milestone is merely the beginning of a new phase of creating a good book: self-editing. This crucial phase of the drafting project has a huge...

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