Comments on: Out of Time http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/09/out-of-time/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: D. C. DaCosta http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/09/out-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-43346 Thu, 15 Oct 2015 01:59:55 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11952#comment-43346 It takes a certain degree of honesty with oneself to admit that a certain portion of the book neither advances the plot nor tells us new information about the characters. But when one has developed that honesty — and the ability to admit that one is not right all the time and doesn’t need to be right, either — it’s really not that hard to cut.

You never kill your darlings (or, as Stephen King calls them, your pets). You excise them and set them aside, to be recycled into another work when the time comes.

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