When it comes to creative writing, metaphors can make magic. Even though I know and use metaphors with regularity, sometimes it helps me ground myself with a nice refresher definition and some sweet examples, like the ones at Grammarly. In fact, one of my favorite go-to’s for fortifying my poetry muscle is Paul Fussell’s dry, green tome Poetic Meter & Poetic Form. Shaped poetry is something I’ll never likely write, but reading Fussell’s chapter about it often points me to a new idea for free verse. Sometimes, you just gotta write a few haikus and maybe an unpublishable sonnet and… you get it.
Today, I leave you with this quippy call-and-response by Dragonquest author Anne McCaffrey and, this advice to your writer self: BE THE DRAGON.
