Comments on: Memoir Monday: The Metaphor http://meghanward.com/blog/2010/06/04/metaphorically-speaking/ Reading, Writing, and Publishing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Meghan Ward http://meghanward.com/blog/2010/06/04/metaphorically-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Meghan Ward Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:46:15 +0000 http://meghanward.com/blog/?p=1140#comment-1624 Sarah, I will head over to your blog right now! I LOVE beautiful metaphors. I think it's what really excites me about a book, and what separates really great literary writing from genre writing (I'm sorry to those genre writers out there. This is just my personal preference!) I dream of being a great literary writer someday, to write the way my favorite writers do. Practice, practice, practice. And Kristan, thanks for sending Sarah over! I used to record beautiful metaphors when I stumbled across them in my reading. I need to start doing that again. Sarah, I will head over to your blog right now! I LOVE beautiful metaphors. I think it's what really excites me about a book, and what separates really great literary writing from genre writing (I'm sorry to those genre writers out there. This is just my personal preference!) I dream of being a great literary writer someday, to write the way my favorite writers do. Practice, practice, practice.

And Kristan, thanks for sending Sarah over! I used to record beautiful metaphors when I stumbled across them in my reading. I need to start doing that again.

]]> By: Sarah http://meghanward.com/blog/2010/06/04/metaphorically-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 Sarah Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:39:49 +0000 http://meghanward.com/blog/?p=1140#comment-1622 Kristan directed me over here and I'm so glad she did...we are definitely on the same wavelength with our posts!! So many great examples of metaphor and figurative language. I love poetry and really want to find a way to get my writing to accomodate it. I'm not sure my current novel is the place to do this, but there are some moments where it works. I'm with you...I don't know how some people write like they do. It is literally paying attention to the world, to a moment and comparing it to experience. Perhaps in unusual pairings. Finding the way opposites seem to be the same? I don't know. yes, it takes practice, but I think it's one of those tools I'll definitely be sharpening because I LOVE metaphor. simile I have less patience for, for whatever reason. Maybe because someone is telling me like it is instead of showing me or allowing me to see it on my own. dunno yet. Kristan directed me over here and I'm so glad she did…we are definitely on the same wavelength with our posts!! So many great examples of metaphor and figurative language. I love poetry and really want to find a way to get my writing to accomodate it. I'm not sure my current novel is the place to do this, but there are some moments where it works.

I'm with you…I don't know how some people write like they do. It is literally paying attention to the world, to a moment and comparing it to experience. Perhaps in unusual pairings. Finding the way opposites seem to be the same? I don't know. yes, it takes practice, but I think it's one of those tools I'll definitely be sharpening because I LOVE metaphor. simile I have less patience for, for whatever reason. Maybe because someone is telling me like it is instead of showing me or allowing me to see it on my own. dunno yet.

]]> By: Kristan http://meghanward.com/blog/2010/06/04/metaphorically-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1616 Kristan Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:18:13 +0000 http://meghanward.com/blog/?p=1140#comment-1616 I love the leaves and the crops one! And the worms. And the best is the popcorn. Great examples, Meghan, thank you! (I know Sarah will love this because she just blogged about wanting to use more metaphors.) I think, as you said, the key is to be unexpected. I'm not so great at that yet, but (also as you said) I'm pretty sure it just takes practice. :) I love the leaves and the crops one! And the worms. And the best is the popcorn. Great examples, Meghan, thank you! (I know Sarah will love this because she just blogged about wanting to use more metaphors.)

I think, as you said, the key is to be unexpected. I'm not so great at that yet, but (also as you said) I'm pretty sure it just takes practice. :)

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