How to Write Metaphors: My Easy Method! | HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL IN A YEAR, Week 24
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Hey friends! I thought I'd throw a metaphor writing lesson into this series! Knowing how to write metaphors is just another tool in your toolbox as an author. Some writers don't do it at all, and some do it a lot...everyone has their own style. But even if you find it difficult to create a metaphor, this will make it a little easier! (As I explain in the video, I don't worry too much about the difference between similes and metaphors...it's all the same in the end. Writing metaphors is all about making creative and memorable comparisons that add a little sparkle to your story.
This is an episode of the free online writing course BLANK PAGE TO FINAL DRAFT.
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THE VIDEO:
Master Lists for Writers, Bryn Donovan: amzn.to/2XTgKP3
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles: amzn.to/2Vqs6sh
The Incendiaries, R.O. Kwon: amzn.to/34U0oal
The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler: amzn.to/35048XV
PRE-ORDER THE BOOK BLANK PAGE TO FINAL DRAFT: amzn.to/2qf4biM
THIS WEEK'S CHECKLIST FOR THE PROGRAM:
- (optional) I've given this method for coming up with metaphors a try.
- I have hit my word count goal for the week!
PROGRAM OVERVIEW: How to write a novel in a year (or less!)
Steps 1 - 6: Preparing and Plotting Steps
7 - 33: Writing Your Draft Steps
34 - 52: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
Do one step a week to have a ready-to-publish novel in one year...or go at whatever pace you like.
Enjoyable and easy to teach to others. Thanks Bryn!
Aw thank you! Glad you like it MJ!
Great video and I love the explanation of how as adults and writers we no longer need to concern ourselves with the definition of metaphors and similes as long as we know how to use them. Someone has switched the light on in the room.
I am so glad to stumble upon your channel, I am already in love with your master list! Can't wait to learn more.
Hi Epshita! Wow, thanks for the kind words. :) It's so nice to connect with you!
Thank you, madam. Your video was succinct.
This exercise is firing up parts of my brain that have been dormant since those writing classes I loved so much in college. The corporate world shifted my writing in the direction of brevity and efficiency. Only now as I write both a novel and screenplay do I see how useful (and enjoyable) metaphorical writing can be. Your example of oranges from that book a Gentleman in Moscow, reminds me of that movie The Godfather, where they used oranges to signal an impending death. I still have a ways to go before my writing mind transitions from the Toyota Camry it is now into the Lamborghini I want it to become. Thanks so much for your class that is getting me on the path to a finished work. Also, glad to hear about the improvement in your family member’s condition after the Coronavirus.
Christopher, hi! It's so weird you'd talk about oranges in The Godfather...lately I was thinking of this extremely threatening (but could've been much worse) scene with oranges...Angelica Huston in The Grifters. I think that's what made me think about the oranges in A Gentleman in Moscow. I know what you mean about communications in the corporate world! Honestly, I love the Camry to Lamborghini metaphor :) They haven't beaten it out of you! It's so fantastic that you're working on both a novel and a screenplay! I hope they're going great. I always love hearing from you!
Great video, Bryn, and you have an awesome smile. I subscribed.
Wonderful! I love writing similes into my prose, especially in descriptions of mood or landscape ... but this exercise you've shared will surely be a boon to all the poetry I'm writing in these days of quarantine! THANK YOU!
Sandra, that's awesome! And way to use your quarantine time creatively! Thanks for the kind words!
PS Last week I talked about a family member who was sick, and so many of you sent good wishes my way through DMs, email, etc. Thank you so much! I am so happy to say she is better this week. I can't tell you how relieved I am!
Nice video, really enjoyed it! One thing though, "gleamed like a car" and "sparkled like a brain full of daydreams" - these are similes and not metaphors because of the usage of "like", so the video should be titled of how to make similes instead?
@@AnimeFanX11 Hey there! You're certainly right. To be honest, I heard a lot about similes and metaphors in grade school and high school, but when I got into writing programs in college and grad school, no one bothered with the distinction. Use "like" or "as," or don't, depending on the flow of the sentence and how it fits in the larger context.
Getting the adjective that's most suitable for the complementing noun seems hard but one can use simile and metaphors hand in hand ?