Murdering my darlings
There's a saying, about writing, that you must murder your darlings. In other words, don't be so far in love with your own story that you're not willing to burn it down if you need to.
I'm not sure who originated the saying but I remember reading it in Stephen King's book, On Writing.
I'm 7k into my lambliff big bang, and I'm getting to the point where I'm going to need to start murdering my darlings. Right now I'm just writing to get the words out but ... yeah. Time to get out the knives.
I'm not sure whether it's helpful or not that I'm a copy-editor in real life. It means that I know that every word isn't sacred but these are my words and that always makes a difference.
I was feeling rather introspective yesterday. jeck7 and I finished Towards the Light - final part here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/155716 bonus "deleted" scenes here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/155833
We've been collaborating on that for over a year now and it's been an amazing - and sometimes stressful - ride, and I'm sorry overall to see it finish. Collaborating with someone else has been fun (mostly - lol) and I already miss it.
I'm feeling rather ... I think weary is the best description. I could get into all the whiny self-serving reasons why, but I won't. I had enough of myself yesterday - lol.
I have a tumblr now, after resisting for a very long time. So far there's just a picture of my cat and I have no idea what I'm going to put on there but here it is: http://starsncoffee.tumblr.com/
Now, if you will all excuse me, I have to go and murder my darlings.
I'm not sure who originated the saying but I remember reading it in Stephen King's book, On Writing.
I'm 7k into my lambliff big bang, and I'm getting to the point where I'm going to need to start murdering my darlings. Right now I'm just writing to get the words out but ... yeah. Time to get out the knives.
I'm not sure whether it's helpful or not that I'm a copy-editor in real life. It means that I know that every word isn't sacred but these are my words and that always makes a difference.
I was feeling rather introspective yesterday. jeck7 and I finished Towards the Light - final part here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/155716 bonus "deleted" scenes here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/155833
We've been collaborating on that for over a year now and it's been an amazing - and sometimes stressful - ride, and I'm sorry overall to see it finish. Collaborating with someone else has been fun (mostly - lol) and I already miss it.
I'm feeling rather ... I think weary is the best description. I could get into all the whiny self-serving reasons why, but I won't. I had enough of myself yesterday - lol.
I have a tumblr now, after resisting for a very long time. So far there's just a picture of my cat and I have no idea what I'm going to put on there but here it is: http://starsncoffee.tumblr.com/
Now, if you will all excuse me, I have to go and murder my darlings.