I received the following note on my writing this week, and it's food for thought.
This person feels that there's a "plainness" to my writing from lack of "witticisms, allusions, bon mots, and deviations".
And they're welcome to that belief! It's just interesting, because I'd never thought that building stories of the present through history & lit analogy might be considered plain.
If the baseline is "not willing to sacrifice accuracy for a witty aside", though... then yep! I'm a plain writer!
@MLClark Thank you. She's a few fries short of a happy meal, looks like a zombie, and reeks like cheetos from what I was told.
With such folks, I remind myself that I only need to pass a few unpleasant moments with them, but they have to live with themselves full-time - and what a rough gig that must be!
@MLClark I cannot imagine she sleeps very well at night.
@JeniRizio
😬 Oh good grief, no.
Pretty sure other flavours are not invited to hop buckets in the ice cream shop... but she sounds one scoop short of a banana split, so I'm not sure if that would ever get through to her. (How exhausting for you all, though!)