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Katherine Hauswirth, ASJA
 According to Forrest Wickman at Slate, the term “murder your darlings” or “kill your darlings,” an oft-quoted, time-honored chestnut for writers, is often attributed to William Faulkner or Allen Ginsberg. More likely the lesser-known Arthur Quiller-Couch, whose lectures on the art of writing had a wide readership, got the expression going, and many more famous voices have reiterated it since then.
Personally, I like Stephen King’s variation. It doesn’t seem it could be more emphatic, unless perhaps you add profanity to really drive the point home:
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Society of Professional Journalists
A delegation representing more than 50 journalism and open government organizations — ASJA among them — met with Josh Earnest, President Barack Obama's press secretary, today at the White House, urging greater openness and transparency from the federal government.
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THE Writer
At a science fiction convention some years ago, a famous writer (to remain nameless) was giving a talk about creating a character. "You must make the character come to life from the very first word," he opined. From the audience, a second famous writer called out: "Marley was dead: to begin with" – the opening line of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Much hilarity ensued.
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Publishers Weekly
Rudy Shur, who heads the editorial program of Square One Publishers in Garden City Park, N.Y., writes: "I recently received an email from Google asking my company to take part in Google Play. I'm sure I wasn't the only publishing house to receive such an invitation. However, it led me to send a response about our relationship with Google in several different areas. While discretion may be the better part of business sense, sometimes it's hard to stand by and watch a big, powerful business take advantage of the industry you love."
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Writer's Digest
Listen here, punks! Forget what you’ve heard about writing. It ain’t all daisies and soft breezes fluttering through grandma’s lace curtains. You’re not a tortured soul, crying over those two sentences you wrote after a bottle and a half of gin. You want to put words on pages in a regular way? Of course you do. That’s why you’re reading this. The truth is, a writer is a soldier. Do you know what separates a soldier from a citizen? It’s my favorite three words: Dih. Sah. Plin. Discipline is the only way anybody ever accomplishes anything.
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io9
"I'm bored." These two words are the hardest thing to admit, when you're writing your deathless novel, or screenplay, or short story. You're supposed to be creating a work of timeless brilliance. How can you be bored?
But admitting that you're bored is the first step to not being bored.
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The Digital Reader
Joe Wikert has just inadvertently proven that the book publishing industry drowned most of its innovators at birth.
Recently, Wikert published a post titled "Whatever happened to innovation in the publishing industry?", and proceeded to unintentionally answer his question by example. At the beginning of his post, he cites the Kindle as the last major innovation in digital publishing.
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The New York Times
Books and their covers are confronting their own awkward questions of relevance and value in the escalating competition for attention against screens the size of Jumbotrons (or, conversely, wristwatches). To see publishers answer this concern with the craft, sophistication and pictorial wit that go into an increasing number of book covers each year reinforces the certainty that one of our oldest technologies remains one of our most perfect.
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Billboard
Section 203 of the Copyright Act of 1976 grants to authors a termination right, which is now daily vesting in new authors the ability to regain control of their works. We are now more than 12 years into the window in which Section 203 recapture termination notices could have been served/recorded. While the number of recorded recapture termination notices to date is more than 10,000, the number of authors is far lower — fewer than 500, in fact (several prolific authors have filed multiple notices).
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