Thinking in Metaphors

Via Scoop.it – Story and Narrative

One of the things you learn writing fiction is to think in metaphors.   The first draft of any novel or screenplay usually spills forth in blissful cluelessness. You tell yourself, I’m writing a detective story, or a Western, or some crazy genre that I don’t even know the name of. Then comes Draft #2 and you have to ask yourself, “What the hell is this thing about?”   That’s when metaphor comes in.
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