Another banger! I'm a sucker for analogies, and might even border on their over-use in my own writing; I can't think of a better way to bring the reader into a nonfiction "dry" narrative than with a great metaphor or analogy, and turning nonfiction into a story is the whole ballgame. Well said/done!
Thanks. I agree there’s a risk of overusing analogies, especially if you try to force one. This is a topic I’m planning to write more about too. In fact, I’ve had to rewrite parts of an article this week since the original analogy I used didn’t work. Had I carried on with it, it would have been confusing
Another banger! I'm a sucker for analogies, and might even border on their over-use in my own writing; I can't think of a better way to bring the reader into a nonfiction "dry" narrative than with a great metaphor or analogy, and turning nonfiction into a story is the whole ballgame. Well said/done!
Thanks. I agree there’s a risk of overusing analogies, especially if you try to force one. This is a topic I’m planning to write more about too. In fact, I’ve had to rewrite parts of an article this week since the original analogy I used didn’t work. Had I carried on with it, it would have been confusing
This conversation is like a ping-pong game!
Crap, I did it again.
But really, thank you for sharing your thoughts/ideas about writing! Thinking about this stuff explicitly is only going to make us better.
But, but. Someone has to win in a ping pong game. We’re agreeing here!!
You're right. This is no ping-pong game! This is much more like the 90s basketball Dream Team.
And you and I are on the same team, the Dream Team, of course!