Comments on: Five Ready-Made Metaphors to Improve Your Storytelling

By: leroy

leroy — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:11:24 +0000

Of course, I’m partial to the classic:

“The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.”

By: leroy

leroy — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:08:35 +0000

My dog asked me to convey his observation that Mr. FC’s post is distressingly incomplete as if Beethoven had abandoned the ship of his oeuvre before completing the Fifth because he was drawn, as if to a loadstone rock, toward the ineluctable interstice of distance and just-out-of-reach desire by the scent of boiling bratwursts wafting to him on the guided yet guileless gossamer wings of remembrance of things past and of a youth as carefree as a caterpillar dreaming of the dancing gypsy moth of olfactory seconds.

Well of course I assured him his dictation isn’t like doggerel.

It is doggerel.

In light of Mr. Clydesteve’s metaphor at 2:13pm, I think my dog’s bedtime story this evening will be an excerpt from Mr. Dahl’s “James And The Giant Peach.”

I shouldn’t be the only one to suffer for my dog’s arf.

By: Kukui

Kukui — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:10:09 +0000

@MattC and Scott – Kinda like The Secret, I try not to use the “I am a leaf on the wind” quote while cycling…

It didn’t really end well for Wash. ;)

By: Kukui

Kukui — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:06:03 +0000

Yes! With these pre-made metaphors, my average, mundane-seeming ride (to the non-cyclist) can sound like the thrilling adventure I see it as!

Hopefully, my family will stop dozing off in the middle of my cycling-adventure stories. Now, I just need to wake them up…

By: ClydeinKS

ClydeinKS — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:19:50 +0000

My son just finished writing a story about “A transformer x-ray CANNON.” I had initially thought that was an incredibly imaginative original idea he had for the story. Now I see I am needing to discuss plagiarism with my 8 year old.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 03:18:28 +0000

MattC I prefer to use the whole quote while descending…

“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” – Wash; Serenity

-Scott
ps. I need to make like that leaf on tomorrows ride.

By: UpTheGrade, SR, CA

UpTheGrade, SR, CA — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:18:56 +0000

You are such a great, like, blogger. And you like gave us all those wonderful metaphors to use, like, for free. I think that’s why I like reading your blog so much.

By: Tom in Albany

Tom in Albany — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:15:52 +0000

You used a simile for metaphor #3. Brilliant!!

It’s clearly a metaphor for why you are beloved and we are we.

Any way, what’s a meta phor?

By: Clydesteve

Clydesteve — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:13:23 +0000

@ MattC – good one, great source.

Metaphors, for me are difficult. To write them I have to strain, like a dog pooping a peach pit.

But similes make me smile.

By: MattC

MattC — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:09:40 +0000

“I’m a leaf on the wind”…Serenity.