| Display title | Murder Your Darlings |
| Default sort key | Murder Your Darlings |
| Page length (in bytes) | 1,772 |
| Namespace ID | 0 |
| Page ID | 407187 |
| Page content language | en - English |
| Page content model | wikitext |
| Indexing by robots | Allowed |
| Number of redirects to this page | 1 |
| Counted as a content page | Yes |
| Number of subpages of this page | 1 (0 redirects; 1 non-redirect) |
| Edit | Allow all users (infinite) |
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| Page creator | Labster (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 01:17, 18 August 2014 |
| Latest editor | Robkelk (talk | contribs) |
| Date of latest edit | 20:49, 25 June 2021 |
| Total number of edits | 8 |
| Recent number of edits (within past 180 days) | 0 |
| Recent number of distinct authors | 0 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Murder Your Darlings (or sometimes Kill Your Darlings) is a phrase used in editing—particularly self-editing. The idea is that a writer may have some aspect of a story, typically a scene, that she is irrationally attached to. The editing process needs to be merciless though—if a scene does not work to serve the greater story, no matter how awesome it is it needs to be cut. A good writer has the ability to murder her darlings. |