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You know how they say in writing that you have to kill your darlings? Meaning that you have to be able to fearlessly and ruthlessly cut the parts of your work that just end up not fitting for some reason.

Well, we’ve killed a lot of darlings in the past couple of weeks. The ground around our desks is littered with corpses.

We're in the midst of a major revision that gets to the heart of the story a lot faster…like in the first sentence. We had to cut some things, switch others to flashbacks and add entire chapters later in the story when things really heat up and start moving quickly. It’s been fun, exhilarating and given us (and our book) a new lease on life. It goes back to our agent at the end of the week, and we’ll see if she likes all the dead darlings too.

--Melanie & Kelly