I have heart that subject on curse and so on, but the opinions are different anbaut what it means.

1 Some people think it's a manner to writhe a good story with no event which is too interesting and the other nice event's becomes more boring. If you let a kind of interesting event the other event's are less boring.

2 An other discription to "kill your darlings is not to writhe abaut what you love, because your inspiration is blocked in admirations and so on. It could be too dominate the rest of the story.

3 The thirth explanation is you must left things away your heart is full of it, but it doesn't realy make a part of the tory, so the story is unessesary too long-winded. Those thing in that case doesn't especialy things you love, it could be also things you worriet abaut, trauma's or things you even hate. In general it could be thing's you are too emotional to think abaut with the nessesary distand.

Near darlings you have got also fixations without any kind of affinity's they can ruin a story. That's more point 3.

My personal understanding of it is basically to be a good writer, sometimes you have to be willing to change or remove parts of the story/characters that you really really love but don't fit into the overall flow of the story. Like you may be writing a character that you think is really cool but if they don't fit with the story you have to be willing to get rid of them because not all readers are going to love it as much as you do. So i guess I side with point 3 somewhat!

Point 3 Is about general subject's who are emotional for the writher, but less for the reading public.

Dude, I've vound point 4. A writher is too much bussy too cheer the public in spé. He/she can be writhe for example too much about kissing's, love or romantic, heroic events, because the writher can think the big public wants that allways. In reality it's not a garrantee and it's never a garrantee to make a good story if a writher writhe to cheer the public. (I believe so).

, Your understanding looks alike point 2. In that case darlings could be a kind of mental trap.

Indeed my interpretation can also fit into 2, I think sometimes the writer's 'darling' becomes the main inspiration for starting to write the story but down the road the story takes a turn/evolves and the subject matter changes, making the 'darling' moot and irrelevant. In that case, sometimes it would be better to remove them entirely, rather than forcibly inserting them into the tale. That would be as you said a 'mental trap' of sorts!

I do agree with your point 4 though, for me personally I think writing is primarily a creative endeavor, not commercial, to write about something that the author wants to write about rather than force themselves to write things like romance/heroes to please the public.

My apologies if I misunderstood any of what you've said :)

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No appologie is nessesary. You understand me.

I'm glad if I understand somebody enough. ;)

I've heard that saying before, and I guess the first thought that comes to mind is a writer who can kill off their characters. But now thinking about it it makes sense that it would mean an author who has to edit and remove parts of their story that they are fond of.

"Darling" 5: You want writhe in a kind of genre, but you haven't got the talent in this genre and you're actually better in other genre-styles you less like.

The first thing that phrase made me think of, was the ability to follow through on hard choices. For example putting so much of yourself and work into characters that they practically live and breathe but still being capable of doing the tough finishing point. Sometimes you have characters you KNOW you have to get rid of. Even if you make them amazing. More so if you make them amazing and create the sort of emotional connect that a reader will actually be upset with you when it happens.

Like how much more devastating certain things were with say Harry Potter (or the one I'm sure everyone thinks of when it comes to things like that George R.R. Martin) because you get that much more attached to everyone first. They become your, and your audiences 'darlings'

The points that have been being made in this thread are interesting to think about.