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!