I was terrible in writing, literature, and English courses as a kid. My high school freshman year English teacher sucked the life out of writing. Until I took a creative writing class senior, my interest in writing was drained. Creative writing had no rules. It was focused on the world building, characters, and story. Fast forward to today, and I wish I had paid a little more attention in that freshman English / Lit class. It was focused on classic literature but also the rules within writing. The basics and foundations of writing and story telling and what some would call a writer’s toolbox. Understanding metaphors, analogies, allegories and so on within a story and how to use them to make a story more impactful. In the latest Writer Syndrome episode we get into one aspect of the writer’s toolbox with metaphors and similes. How we got them wrong, how we get them right, and how we’ve used them in our writing.
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