SLSL "TSR" "what I dislike about my writing "

[s~Z]

>>>I failed to recognize, just for openers, that the main
character's problem was real and interesting enough to
generate a story on its own. Apparently I felt I had
to put on a whole extra overlay of rain images and
references to "The Waste Land" and _A Farewell to
Arms."  I was operating on the motto "Make it
literary," a piece of bad advice I made up all by
myself and then took"<<<

I'll bet the inside of his cheek is sore from some serious tongue friction.