I’m just wondering if any of you struggle with similes as much as I do. Though I feel somewhat competent in assembling creative metaphors (well at least I hope so), when it comes to similes, I feel like a klutz. It happens all the time while I write. When I get to some description that I know just demands a clever punch, the first few that pop in my head are lame at best. And then it seems like the harder I try, the worse they get until finally I surrender and move on.
So my question is, for those of us who don’t have the simile dexterity of someone like Dennis Miller, how do we even begin to master them?
So my question is, for those of us who don’t have the simile dexterity of someone like Dennis Miller, how do we even begin to master them?
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