Writing practice: imagery tears: condensed emotional overload frozen emotions melting [still too literal] recovery seeds [ok that’s at least a little better. recovery isn’t great, but seeds is a decent metaphor. try again with that. relate one aspect of seeds that applies to tears. i love embers of the hand because it’s two static images …

Writing practice: more work on metaphor/imagery premise: all human action is condensed thought, conscious or unconscious as for embers of the hand, creating a metaphor is to identify one specific aspect of a thing and relate it to one aspect of another thing that creates an image. so for tears, say. what’s one specific aspect? …

Writing practice: more metaphors/imagery The next line in Richard III : “And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” First, he should have written “Are in the deep bosom…” or something like that, since what he wrote leaves out the predicate (I think that’s what it’s …

Writing practice: metaphors/imagery [but first…] There’s something really magical about seeing a thing for what it is. When all the extraneous irrelevancies fall away and you see the true nature of a thing. And we humans pile on these irrelevancies as much to distract ourselves as to distract others, and also as a result of …

Writing practice: create one-line metaphors/imagery [but first more thinking through…] There’s a magic in being able to see something clearly, meaning to understand the true nature of something or to have a completely clear vision for something. Then everything extraneous melts away and you see the inner essence for exactly what it is. [just try …

Writing practice: still trying for the cat soliloquy… [just try for some good metaphors/imagery] Before my heart had grown an undercoat [well that’s it for today]

Writing practice: continue with opening soliloquy for cat CAT [first, a diversion] What do you do when you think it would be instructive to empathize with another or another group, but they aren’t interested in doing the same? Or you think, “What’s the point of understanding them better, since they don’t want to understand the …

Writing practice: keep trying for that cat soliloquy [actually just going to work through some more stuff] [you just have to extract one word at a time, if that’s what it takes] [ok, back to the cat] So the cat has a backstory for why he’s like that. He’s sent from his mother’s womb, against …

Writing practice: do an opening soliloquy from the perspective of the cat, in the style of Richard III CAT At birth I was the last, the runt, the frail, Too quick removed I hide amid the brush and feed on scraps Discarded by the kennel, once my home [no. let’s break this down. the first …

Writing practice: Continue with The Cat in the Hat in blank verse Above a little smile lightly veiled, Our mother’s gaze hit boy, then girl, then fish. “Alright,” she said, “you finish up in here, I’ll cook us up some warm and yummy soup.” Some day, perhaps, this lesson will return, In circumstance of greater …