When Metaphors Sneak Attack

I was emailing my brother about one of my books when he wrote:

I’d say all the best moments so far are character stuff, but all of them having unexplained mysteries in their pasta is good too.

It took me five minutes to realize that pasta was a typo. But it kinda works as a metaphor for the writing process. Like in this case, the pasta is the character as a whole, and the unexplained mysteries were a spicy meatball tossed in with the bolognaise sauce.

When I asked him about it, he said the computer auto-corrected “past” to “pasta” but he left it because he liked it. Presumably, he saw the same thing I did.

Well, that settles it, I’m using “pasta” as a metaphor in my editing comments.

Unnecessary character? Does this character add anything to the pasta?

Infodump? Don’t dump too much stuff into the pasta.

You get the idea.