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Favorite similes and metaphors?
The best similes are like someone lost in the woods... I forgot where I was going with this.
Hit me with your best ones!
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Posted 7 months ago
Responding to this post is like setting an elevator full of dogs on fire... I'm legally prohibited from doing it in Texas.
Posted 7 months ago
Fixing a car is like making love to a woman. You just gotta pound on it for like twenty seconds. Thirty if you're feeling romantic.
Short stories and concepts: http://sharkerbob.blogspot.com/
Posted 6 months ago
Here's a new one I just used.
"I brought [the hammer] down on the front door, shattering it like I was a wrecking ball with anger issues demolishing a gingerbread house."
Posted 6 months ago
It's too long. 'Wrecking ball with anger issues' or 'wrecking ball demolishing a gingerbread house' are both more effective than combining the two. The impact of it is lost before the end of the sentence.
Posted 6 months ago
From a friend of mine: It's like killing two birds by picking up one bird and throwing it at the other.
Short stories and concepts: http://sharkerbob.blogspot.com/
Posted 6 months ago
I remember one I heard from someone in an improv comedy group, "Our love is like the moon landing, 19 and 69."
And Sci-fi:The Ascendant Age - Hiatus
Posted 6 months ago
"It feels like a baboon cracked open my skull, climbed inside, and is now having its way with my eye socket from behind."
~ Me, describing my migraines.
... I get some seriously horrible migraines...
Posted 6 months ago
Look, all stories can be boiled down to one of three basic conflicts:
1) Man wipes his butt.
2) Man wipes someone else's butt.
3) Man versus giant butt monster.
Short stories and concepts: http://sharkerbob.blogspot.com/
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