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Metaphor, simile, details-- these are not just tools for the poet. The best journalists, essayists, novelists-- know how avoid clichés (like the plague...ha!) and use sharp details to create vivid pictures. I love coming across these beauties when I read. Here are some favorites:
No one wants to kiss when she is hungry, according to Dorothy Dix.
It takes guts to play God. And yet, the omniscient point of view is enormously fluid and rewarding.
When I remember how ferocious revising can be– that it’s tearing down, peeling away, sanding, brushing off, discovering–I can get the real work done. It’s a comfort to know revision is re-visioning, casting a new light on your draft, seeing new connections.
Books I read in 2020, and recommend
Here are he books I read in 2018, all of 70 of them
Books I read in 2017.
