Over-producing/over-writing a song

''Equating time spent and quality may in fact be empirically false. Painting teachers encourage students not to overpaint a picture, continuing to put paint on the canvas until an initially good idea is buried in a muddy mess.''

(Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, pg. 131; found Feb. 4, 2004)


--TG