Now THAT is the kind of begrudging compliment I can take. I'd apologize if I bit a little hard and fast when you suggested FREE NOVEL, what with 80 pieces to choose from on Substack but I don't believe in Sorrys. Thanks for hanging in. May I suggest the following pieces :
You seem like a reasonably good writer: for 30 bucks a year, what the hell.
Now THAT is the kind of begrudging compliment I can take. I'd apologize if I bit a little hard and fast when you suggested FREE NOVEL, what with 80 pieces to choose from on Substack but I don't believe in Sorrys. Thanks for hanging in. May I suggest the following pieces :
https://continentalriffs.substack.com/p/a-poet-in-the-tropics
https://continentalriffs.substack.com/p/nato-gets-its-pockets-picked-in-paris
https://continentalriffs.substack.com/p/two-ways-of-being-hungry-in-the-city
Excuse me, but you mean grudging (or perhaps half-hearted, or best of all, tepid), not begrudging.
Sorry to be a pedant, but you're a writer, you have to get words right.
Watered-down? Lukewarm? Insipid? (No, insipid is insulting, which you didn't mean to be.)