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Category: Master Insights

Master Insights: Stephen King

April 25, 2016 zacharybarnes

What King is saying is not to avoid writing darlings, but rather to remove them from the final product. This is important because I believe that breathing life into those “darlings” is one of the best ways a writer can improve his craft.

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Master Insights: Haruki Murakami

March 28, 2016 zacharybarnes

I’d like to bring your attention to Komatsu’s last line, which I believe to be the best: “What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.”

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