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 Yeah, my editor told me to delete from my history book draft passages that might be categorized as witticism, bon mots, etc.
But you still left one page where all the first letters line up to say N-E-V-E-R-G-O-N-N-A-G-I-V-E-Y-O-U-U-P, right? 👀
@MLClark They were the last letters at the end of each line, on the right side. I like a challenge.
Well played, Stephen. And I assume the appropriate link was added in place of one of the key citations, too? 😉 Can't wait to see which one!