Take a walk, take a nap, take a break in this 3rd step
Novelist Agatha Christie believed that the best time to write was while washing the dishes.… Read the full article
Creative communications
Foraging comes 1st in the 5-step creative process
Gather raw material for your project
The first of the five stages of the creative process is to forage, or stuff your brain with information and inspiration.… Read the full article
Try Ann Wylie’s Metaphor Generator
Take these 4 steps to creating an analogy
Sometimes you’ll find a metaphor in an interview. Other times, it’s up to you to create one yourself.… Read the full article
How to handle metaphor research
Go beyond the interview
My writing team had one of those tough assignments recently that only a geek like me can fully appreciate.
Our job: to transform technical medical text into a fascinating research report that patients, donors and neurointerventionalists alike can understand and enjoy.… Read the full article
How to write an extended metaphor
The gift that keeps on giving
Quick! Which is more effective?
A simple metaphor?
Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus.
— Dean Koontz in Seize the Night
Or an extended metaphor?… Read the full article
How to create metaphors and similes
3 ways to craft clever figures of speech
When a Hollywood pitchman wants to sell a new horror film about a rampaging dog, he doesn’t have time to explain the storyline.… Read the full article
Don’t mix metaphors — and other metaphor ‘don’ts’
Do sync with the subject, don’t write a groaner
Don’t mix metaphors. Fewer are more persuasive. Choose one concept for comparison and stick with it.… Read the full article
What is the writing process?
3 steps to Writing Better, Easier & Faster
While we talk a lot about what to write — More stories! Fewer words! Shorter sentences! — we don’t focus so much on how.… Read the full article
What are the 5 steps of the creative process?
Write better, easier & faster with this system
Have you ever come up with a brilliant idea — on the way home from the brainstorming meeting?… Read the full article
Analyzing is the 2nd creative process step
Look for themes, holes, relationships, structure
What’s the best way to come up with great ideas? What are the thought processes that drive the world’s most creative individuals?… Read the full article