No. 118 (essentialsaltes) wrote,
No. 118
essentialsaltes

"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

But sometimes, you can't help yourself. Darling of the Day from David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas:

"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage."
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