Killing Chapters and Weekly Goals

I haven’t worked on my sci-fi book today. I’m avoiding it. I’m avoiding it because I think I need to delete two chapters.

On the surface, that doesn’t sound too bad, but I’ve already deleted and rewritten this section of the book a dozen times, and one of those chapters I think I need to delete has a “darling” in it.

Yall have all heard that old phrase before, right? That authors need to “kill their darlings?” I haven’t had to kill many darlings before. In The Shadow Reader books, I had to add...