Sarah Duncan – Killing Your Darlings

I whittled the cemeteries down to two. My editor was adamant — two was still too many. And of course she was right. I whittled the cemeteries down to two. My editor was adamant — two was still too many. She was right. My personal, emotional, response was blinding me to the fact that if I wanted to write about cemeteries of World War I, I should write a different book.

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