K is for Kill Your Darlings
A common bit of advice to new writers is to "kill your darlings." In other words, when you have a piece of writing you think is the most amazing, most beautiful thing you've ever written, cut it out and discard it. Because if you think it's that much over-the-top gorgeous, it's probably not. :-D
Today's tarot deck is the Witches Tarot. Here are a couple of sample cards:
Images courtesy of Aeclectic Tarothttp://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/witches-dugan/
I asked the tarot what element of my writing was most likely to be over-the-top and need to be toned down, revised or eliminated. The card I drew was the Ten of Pentacles.
This card is one of the best for showing happiness in family and friends, financial affairs, home and hearth, and job success. Therefore, I'd interpret this to mean that when I write the HEA (happily ever after) ending, I tend to go overboard and make things *too* perfect. I need to make sure the ending is happy but not saccharine. Believably joyous. And of course, identifiable to the reader.
What "darling" in your writing do you need to cut?
Today's tarot deck is the Witches Tarot. Here are a couple of sample cards:
Images courtesy of Aeclectic Tarothttp://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/witches-dugan/
I asked the tarot what element of my writing was most likely to be over-the-top and need to be toned down, revised or eliminated. The card I drew was the Ten of Pentacles.
This card is one of the best for showing happiness in family and friends, financial affairs, home and hearth, and job success. Therefore, I'd interpret this to mean that when I write the HEA (happily ever after) ending, I tend to go overboard and make things *too* perfect. I need to make sure the ending is happy but not saccharine. Believably joyous. And of course, identifiable to the reader.
What "darling" in your writing do you need to cut?
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