Kill Your Darlings

Kill your darlings

Count your farthings

Ditch the filler

Miss your markings

Save the cat

Use Chekov’s gun

Try to pull

the other one

Misdirection

is your friend

Can you make it

to the end?

Thoughts

I’m over thirty thousand words into my debut novel. The amount of armchair experts on Instagram and YouTube is to be expected but what advice should you take? It’s hard to know but the two that stand out to me are: 1 – Read widely and 2 – Live your life. I think they are both good pieces of advice, whether you aim to write a book or not.