/lit/ - Literature

>>18412439
It means don't get sentimental about your work

Even if you built your entire book around making one scene work, if that scene doesn't work and your book does, you cut the scene to make it better. EVERYTHING can be deleted

You can delete your main character if you need to

Haven't you ever encountered some amateur writer that's like "no you don't understand, it's incredibly important to the plot that the main character get raped by this tentacle monster" or something akin to that? Where you from an outside perspective can see how shit it is but they won't delete it becuase it's their darling?

Kill your darlings, but find a better one