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trans-ralsei

caughtthedarkness93

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

gospelofme

-SCREAMING-

inspiredbyabook

the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty “greatness takes time… often the mightiest things have the humblest beginnings.”

tlbodine

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

prof-grace-aspen

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

earhartsease

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

eldritchsandwich

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

Fairy portal

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

@jorality

jorality

We know who has all the brain cells

arsnof

It makes the dream work

naamahdarling

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

wolveswolves

European wolf (Canis lupus lupus) fails to jump in tree

Video by wolveswolves

waflafel

gotta get stick

hunter-rodrigez

I can see why early humans saw this animal that can easily kill you and thought: “I am going to try to become friends with it!!”

tgatbc

scifi0lver

One of the Facebook pages I like is "The Man Who Has It All." Here are some of the posts I like the most.

kkdjfdsfdhgjdg-deactivated20190

🥰

hexpress

CHIPS GOT CHUBBY CHEEEEEEKS

haridraws

Keep thinking about this Austin Walker post that now lives in my brain. It's a reply to people saying genAI can help creators 'develop concepts' and waste less time on research (x)