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Keep Your Darlings
By Anna Vodicka
In a famous University of Cambridge lecture, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch instructed young writers: “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.”
It was 1914, but the advice was ancient, the same artistic restraint Horace advocated in Ars Poetica
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As a writing teacher, this book is absolutely and deliciously horrifying! The mystery twists and turns, and for those of us who lead or participate in writing workshops, murder isn't the worst part. An insightful, cautionary tale about bad teaching w
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Milos is right! I let him down horribly. In the middle of a year of personal challenges including moving countries three times, I failed to deliver hi
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Anne, that makes me so happy that you're on team breakdancer! And I think we've all learned a lot from Rayygun :) I come from a background of street p
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Thanks, Tracy! I'm preparing the next edition of the book, and this is a great tip - you're right, I added a special focus on memoir because when I or
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“Rejection sucks. It sucks every time, whether it's a big suck or a little suck. But it's part of the process. It's part of being a writer. It's a badge that says 'I'm serious about this, and I'm sending out my work.”
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
“What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.”
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
“Writers are seldom original. But we can always be rare.”
― Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
― Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
“Rejection sucks. It sucks every time, whether it's a big suck or a little suck. But it's part of the process. It's part of being a writer. It's a badge that says 'I'm serious about this, and I'm sending out my work.”
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
“What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.”
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
― Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better
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