Contemplating diet plansstrictly editorial

November 27, 2006

Maybe she needs to go on a diet? Or is she, perhaps, rather sinewy?

Spread out on sofas and club chairs, she sat in a less comfortable armchair, placing a folder down on the coffee table before being seated.

The truly abysmal passages compound semantic and factual horror with gaggable emotion and overwrought adjectives. It's odd in a way, that as bad as a decidedly weak manuscript may look on initial review, the quality seems nonetheless to drop exponentially after the contract is signed and the work in progress. Sigh. One wonders about the perverse humor of the universe.