Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: King, Stephen (2000), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Pocket Books, New York, NY, Retrieved on 2011-01-03Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: writing Memes
03 JAN 2011
ReWriting Principle: Kill Your Darlings
Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggest cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings)...I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was t...Folksonomies: writing
Folksonomies: writing
Stephen King's formula for producing a second draft involves cutting 10 percent of it in order to improve the pace of the text, meaning you must cut parts that you personally really like.