I think my default used to contain over-generous prose, but seriously some of the things I wrote last year were downright sparse.

You're right, that's true. I missed a bunch of things you wrote this year, but every time I check in I find you've evolved. Also, I think I expressed myself wrong anyway. Your writing used to be over-generous, sure. But it still often contains...hm. Your honesty. You have a way of slicing right to the center of things everybody thinks about (some of them porny, many of them entirely quotidian), summarizing and presenting them for discussion with -- gob-smacking pith. You do it over and over again, and it's amazing. That's what I meant by generous: the way you have of offering up the things you think about.

I've taken to writing long long paragraphs of introspection, deleting them completely, and replacing them with one line that (ostensibly) has nothing to do with the full-blown introspection. The thing I've been really proud of recently is that these single lines still manage to contain the mood of the introspective bits without being direct. It's neat and fun and sometimes really surprising.

This is my favourite part of my own editing process. :) The game of "Where can I cut a word?" and deciding which parts do need to be laid out in full.

sesquipedalian

Heeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I like the way you describe my writing. Thanks. :)

some really really good things . . . well, start to sound like other things.

Hummus, right. lutamira (Do you know her? She's cool.) was talking about something similar in regards to sex scenes recently. The dangers thereof. *rummages* On the subject of reality vs. ideation.