Comments on: Compress Novel http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/compress-novel/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Cut Dead Weight: Omit That Scene http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/compress-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-10623 Cut Dead Weight: Omit That Scene Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:40:32 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2186#comment-10623 [...] Need to cut, but don’t want to cut out an entire scene? [...] [...] Need to cut, but don’t want to cut out an entire scene? [...]

]]> By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/compress-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-5114 Kimberlee Conway Ireton Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:24:30 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2186#comment-5114 Darcy, Killing our darlings is never easy, is it? I appreciate the way you broke it down into smaller chunks, cutting away a sentence here, a paragraph there. That makes it seem a lot more manageable than trying to cut a big chunk...and maybe seeing how much better it is without the small extraneous stuff will help me recognize the big extraneous stuff that has to go. Darcy,

Killing our darlings is never easy, is it? I appreciate the way you broke it down into smaller chunks, cutting away a sentence here, a paragraph there. That makes it seem a lot more manageable than trying to cut a big chunk…and maybe seeing how much better it is without the small extraneous stuff will help me recognize the big extraneous stuff that has to go.

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