Comments on: Tuesday Tip: Try a New Metaphor http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/10/tuesday-tip-try-a-new-metaphor/ With daily writing exercises, tips and techniques, and thoughts on the writing life, Writerly Life is for the writer in all of us. Sat, 11 May 2013 23:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mary brady http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/10/tuesday-tip-try-a-new-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-12617 mary brady Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:24:42 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=3793#comment-12617 Hm. I don’t think I’ve ever used a metaphor. I write mainly dialogue, then, in between, paragraphs that move the characters from point A to point B. At B, there is more dialogue which reveals more about the plot & the characters.

Basically, if I can just keep the action moving, remain coherent & tell an interesting story about some people, I’m happy. I guess I am pretty shallow. It never occurs to me put my characters in or near some ‘place’ that is a metaphor for anything.

I don’t even use metaphors as descriptors, e.g., ‘his clothes looked like he’d slept in them.’ I suspect I’d quickly mention his ‘rumpled clothes’ & move on to his dialogue.

I like dialogue! Plus, the less I say about anyone, the more my readers fill in themselves. But I still feel shallow & ‘less than’ because I don’t think to use empty wells or trains. I’m very superficial. But that’s just me. I liked this pointer a lot & will try using something as a symbol of something else soon!

L&K, MaryB

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