I Left My Heart on the Cutting Room Floor

Bobi Conn
3 min readJun 17, 2021

Reviving the “darlings” left behind

Photo by Dim Hou on Unsplash

The directive to “kill your darlings” is one of the most challenging and valuable practices we can employ as writers. But how do we pick those darlings? And if those passages are so dear to us, how can they truly be worthy of deletion?

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Bobi Conn

Author of In the Shadow of the Valley (memoir) and A Woman in Time (historical fiction). Order now! https://amzn.to/3Es7JzH