A writer's hell

Gunter Grass' first novel was never published (like mine, alas) because after the first chapter all the characters were dead. Bummer of a plot twist. (Would've made it hard to write the sequel, too.)
Grass has also come out of the German 'closet' and revealed that he was a member of the Waffen SS during World War Two. (He was in the 10th SS Panzer Division- Frundberg, a unit that "saw action on both the Eastern and Western fronts in 1944-45, notably during the Allied airborne landings at Arnhem; under orders to rescue Adolf Hitler from the bunker in Berlin".) There goes his credibility.

Maybe we should ask him to give back his Nobel Prize...