Kill Your Darlings! And Other Unpleasantries.

<p>Here is an overview of today's episode.</p> <p><strong>00:00--</strong>Intro</p> <p><strong>00:14--</strong>New logo! Please let me know if the old one is what you see so I may fix it.</p> <p><strong>01:12--</strong>Importance of self-care and seeing old friends, especially after this past year of isolation.</p> <p><strong>01:52--</strong>Last week's question was "How do you deal with an increased workload?" And these were the responses to that.</p> <p><strong>03:32--</strong>This week's Question of the Week is, "What are you doing today to measure your success?" Please send a response on today's Instagram post @authordevindavis.</p> <p><strong>04:44--</strong>Goals have changed because my entire book has changed.</p> <p><strong>05:34--</strong>Art is a pull to self-express. When pour so many hours of our lives into it, it can feel like this project is our baby. But when we hope to sell our art it becomes a juggling act of our self-expression mixed with what people actually want. "Kill Your Darlings" means being willing to change or abandon a project to meet market requirements.</p> <p><strong>11:17--</strong>Revision is another form of practice, and practice is how we get better at anything.</p> <p><strong>12:37--</strong>Tranditionally published author Alexa Donne showed that a break-out novel is usually 100,000 words. People write longer than this, but not with their breakout novel.</p> <p><strong>15:35--</strong>For a debut novel, publishers push for 100,000-word manuscripts because they are more affordable to print than longer books.</p> <p><strong>16:22--</strong>The realization that my book was far too long. But I'm willing to pivot and to be flexible.</p> <p><strong>18:00--</strong>Restructuring my novel so one of the subplots is now its own books. Scrivener made this restructuring easy.</p> <p><strong>19:40--</strong>New things to figure out. Pacing to fix. Ideas to further develop. And a new character that I'm not acquainted with yet.</p> <p><strong>23:08--</strong>Outro. Leave a review on your podca