{"id":976788,"date":"2026-06-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=976788"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:42:16","slug":"a-little-less-murdering-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/a-little-less-murdering-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"A little less murdering, maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The phrase \u2018kill your darlings\u2019 originated with a British writer, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who said, in 1916:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it \u2013 whole-heartedly \u2013 and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That phrase was picked out and adjusted by the worse-named but more famous William Faulkner who said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn writing, you must kill all your darlings.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a few observations to start with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Why did all British writers of a certain generation have names like Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch – and why on earth was I not issued with one of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The phrase does seem to be a particularly bloodthirsty one to use when your country is right in the middle of the bloodiest way it\u2019s ever fought. Maybe chill a little, dude?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Faulkner\u2019s version of the phrase is better than Q-C\u2019s. The one-syllable click of \u2018kill\u2019 works better than \u2018murder\u2019 when laid against the two-syllable \u2018darlings\u2019. Maybe that explains why WF is more famous even though he\u2019s got an obviously worse name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. While we\u2019re on the topic of names, I feel obliged to point out that Sir Arthur Q-C also had a better moustache than WF, although both men put in a jolly decent effort. Well done to both. I\u2019d say the two men were evenly matched in the matter of pipe-smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s a bigger observation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. The phrase is bullshit, no? I mean it\u2019s  fur-lined, ocean-going, gold-plated, 36-carat, spit-and-polish nonsense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never kill my darlings. I look after them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is my policy as a proud family man. (Number of children born: 4. Number of children so far slaughtered: 0.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s also my policy as a writer. If you write a great scene, keep it. If you have a good joke, retain it. If you nail a descriptive sentence, hang on to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, a lot of deletion will happen in your work. And the more inexperienced you are, the greater the ratio of deletion to final output. But killing darlings is not really the way to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, I think there are two or three real guidelines that apply when it comes to deleting your material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Compact is always better<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s pretty much inevitable that if your first draft just spins productively off your pen, that plenty of what you\u2019ve written can be made more compact. Sometimes, that\u2019ll be a 12 word sentence that you can turn into a 9 word sentence (that says the exact same thing.) Other times, there\u2019ll be a para that can lose a sentence. Or a chapter ending that offers a page of farewell, when really a single paragraph will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are inevitably opportunities like this throughout your text and you should take them all. Perhaps the single most dependable, most surprising, most effective editing tool at your disposal is simply deleting the unnecessary. It still astonishes me quite how much deleting text can improve a manuscript. Everything gets better. A dull chapter becomes a good one. A soggy book becomes a propulsive one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Delete more than you think<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is especially true for newer writers. I\u2019d say most manuscripts that come through our doors for editing are at least 20% too long. 30% is perfectly common. And even if your manuscript is only 10% too long, that could easily mean that you have 10,000 words that really don\u2019t want to be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set your sights high when it comes to eliminating surplus. And bear in mind that the goal here is mostly to eliminate word count whilst communicating exactly the same thing as you did before. You want the same narrative power, but delivered with fewer words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Some of your text will have been direction-finding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you\u2019re writing your first draft, a lot of what you do will have been effectively probing around on a misty mountain at night, searching for the right path forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s fine. We\u2019re not issued with a very precise map at the start of writing, and even if we have pre-planned everything to the last detail, those plans may need amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So your way \u2013 my way, anyone\u2019s way \u2013 to resolve that uncertainty is just to write. We throw in a bit of this, a bit of that, see what sticks. When we find the way forward, we take it. That\u2019s absolutely the right policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when you come back to your manuscript, you need to find the bits of it which were just casting about for direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With those bits, you mustn\u2019t think, \u201cHmm, how can I make this more compact?\u201d You need to think, \u201cYeah, I just don\u2019t need any of this, do I?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s never as simple as just Select-Delete. There are always dabs of crucial information that you need to replant somewhere. There are joins to smooth. Character insights to adjust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But roughly: direction-finding text will be baggy and useless. Your aim is to knock down the whole unnecessary structure, then do what you need to do to make good afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But killing darlings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nope. I don\u2019t do that in my family. And I don\u2019t do that with my text. I rather suggest that you wax your moustache, fill your pipe \u2013 and love your darlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Delete, delete, delete<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once more, there are two FF options this week. One for those taking the Plan Your Romance Novel<\/a><\/strong> video course, one not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plot Your Romance Novel video course task<\/strong>: Write a final 400-word pitch for the romance novel you would like to write. Your pitch should include: The type of romance (sub-genre), the central premise of the story, the key trope or tropes, the spice level and your reader promise. When you’re ready, post your work in the forum<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General task<\/strong>: Find a 300 word passage in your text and cut it down. Your aim is to have the text say, essentially, the same thing as it said before, but with fewer words. I’m not going to be impressed unless you cut at least 30 words, and really, you’re going to try for 50+. When you’re ready,\u00a0upload your work here<\/a><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Til soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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