/lit/ - Literature

>start rewriting the storyline for one of the side characters
>coming along really well, I like the depth that's being built
>get to a chapter that is nothing but senseless filler that needs to be nuked
>there's another one right after it full of melodrama
I WILL REFINE UNTIL THE DIAMONDS SHINE
EVEN AT THE COST OF MY SANITY

>Now a confession will have to be made. Amory had a rather Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it–later in life he almost completely slew it–but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than the other boys... unscrupulousness... the desire to influence people in almost any way, even for evil... a certain coldness and lack of affection, amounting sometimes to cruelty... a shifting sense of honor... an unholy selfishness... a puzzled, furtive interest in everything concerning sex.
>...Vanity, tempered with self-suspicion if not self-knowledge, a sense of people as automatons to his will, a desire to "pass" as many boys as possible and get to a vague top of the world... with this background did Amory drift into adolescence.
Christ, Fitzgerald. I know I've been a shitty person and to some extent still am, but you didn't need to call me out almost 100 years before I realized it.

Sections that hit too close to home thread?