Pulling a Dickens

When you/someone gets WAY to descriptive in conversation or text and ends up writing a fucking novel with what could've been a simple idea.

Tim: Dude, are you coming? We're gonna be late.
Andy: Yeah, sorry man, my wife is pulling a Dickens and wrote me a fucking book about exactly what she wants from the store. Took 4 messages to tell me what kind of pasta I need to get.