I am not a very good teacher

One of the thing that I find the hardest to communicate to my students is that their story or poem can be fairly good...but still need to be about half as long. For instance, T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" has one of poetry's most famous opening lines: "April is the cruelest month." However, most members of the literati know that Ezra Pound very famously …