{"id":1208,"date":"2009-03-24T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2009-03-24T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T08:35:50","slug":"killing-my-darlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/killing-my-darlings\/","title":{"rendered":"KILLING MY DARLINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Nobel Prize-winning American author, <a title=\"William Faulkner on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"populated\">William Faulkner<\/span><\/a> who said it first: <span class=\"populated\">Kill<\/span> your <span class=\"populated\">darlings<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The term is used by authors to describe how you should <span class=\"populated\">cut to the chase<\/span> and have the <span class=\"populated\">courage<\/span> to get rid of the elements that you love so much yourself, but that don&#8217;t really add anything to the whole &#8211; or, even worse, actually weaken it.<\/p>\n<p>So this weekend, with the help of Chris Boot, I attempted to kill my darlings.  I&#8217;ve now got the edit down to 54 pictures (from about 90 in my last <a title=\"Editing blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1186\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>). It was a painful but valuable experience having created, in my opinion, a stronger book.<\/p>\n<p>ps. It&#8217;s also the title of a track by the Swedish band<span class=\"description\"> Tony Clifton. Watch their video here-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-jPjxniEBHo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-jPjxniEBHo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<span class=\"description\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Nobel Prize-winning American author, William Faulkner who said it first: Kill your darlings. The term is used by authors to describe how you should cut to the chase and have the courage to get rid of the elements that you love so much yourself, but that don&#8217;t really add anything to the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}