{"id":92700,"date":"2016-07-14T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/14\/i-have-a-thought-about-kill-your-darlings-there-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T00:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:15:03","slug":"i-have-a-thought-about-kill-your-darlings-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/14\/i-have-a-thought-about-kill-your-darlings-there-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I have a thought about \u2018kill your darlings.\u2019 There seems to be a general notion out there in the ether that the phrase means, \u2018Hunt down every sentence or image you really love and cut it down like a pernicious weed.\u2019 \u00a0That, my dears, is bullshit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, what it really means is, \u2018If you\u2019re rewriting a whole scene just so that a paragraph or conversation you\u2019re in love with will work, and it still kind of doesn\u2019t, maybe it doesn\u2019t really belong in this story and you should print it out and put it in a lovely, decorative folder labelled DARLINGS to read on those days when you hate every sentence you\u2019re writing.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/kushnersherman\/sherman\/bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Delia Sherman<\/b><\/a>, American fantasy writer (via <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenkushner.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ellenkushner<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a thought about \u2018kill your darlings.\u2019 There seems to be a general notion out there in the ether that the phrase means, \u2018Hunt down every sentence or image you really love and cut it down like a pernicious weed.\u2019 \u00a0That, my dears, is bullshit. \u201cIn my opinion, what it really means is, \u2018If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/14\/i-have-a-thought-about-kill-your-darlings-there-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}