Do You Really Have to Kill Your Darlings?

Do You Really Have to Kill Your Darlings?

by | Writing Q & A

With one flurry of keyboard strokes in On Writing, Stephen King set down what has become an ironclad rule for a generation of writers: Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. It’s...
How Many Words Are in a Novel?

How Many Words Are in a Novel?

by | Writing

If you’re a fiction writer, then sooner or later you’re going to run into the issue of how to classify your work. Is it a short story? A novella? A full-blown novel? And just how many words are in a novel, anyway? That’s a hard question with no...