[Wallace Lee]

I have to say that I never had too many troubles with killing my darlings and feeling the very disgusting feeling it gave me. And yet, I always did it anyway and quite sponteaneously.

I mean, that if you have a sincere urge to became a BETTER writer, you cut your works a lot.
Because in EVERY work there are are ALWAYS pages that are better than the others, thus cutting the worst pages (in order to raise overall quality) is a common process for any result-driven writer. And I am talking about result driven writers on purpose.

We all write for different reasons.
Some write because they want to be successfull (and quality - as we all know - MIGHT HELP, but does not GIVE you success), some write because they have fun while writing and don't care about getting any better (for they usually already consider themselves good writers), some others write to become better writers in the long TERM.

I always wished to become a good writer.
After 25 years of writing (12 novels, countless tales), I still want to become a better writer than the one I currently am.

So, when you are cutting down your works while reasoning in pure terms of final results, leaving everything out but the 'best quality parts' of the final read... You know... It feels nasty, guys. But then you see how the shorter version is better... Thus you do it. You leave the complete opera in your PC and treat the cut version as the final draft. And by doing this, the novel gets REALLY better. Stephen King once said that cutting is the Viagra of writing, and I agree 100%, to the point that I think that any bad novel (and by bad, I mean very bad) might be a very good short tale just by cutting away the most part of it.

And yet - during the exact moment while you are doing it - cutting feels soooo nasty.
You do really feel like you are killing your own pets.