To find your voice as a writer... imitate, then innovate.
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Nice metaphor. Also, is there anything you or I will write that will be worth reading 2,000 years from now? How many emperors lived and ruled and died, but wrote nothing we'd want to read?
I would stand in line for this. Moby metaphors from "Extreme Ways" -- still fresh two decades later. Because good metaphors are made not Bourne. @thelittleidiot @JasonBourne youtu.be/nBB2bPwKWVg?fe… Read more: open.substack.com/pub/dailymetaf…
PERFORMATIVE Here's a word I see more with each passing month. Similar in idea to "virtue signaling"--that one's action or words are done more for the appearance than the reality. performative X: ▪justice ▪activism ▪outrage ▪social media @Mike_Pence recently said of…
How to set up a background-info dump without losing your reader. "You've probably read about X." As displayed by @stevenwaldman in @TheAtlantic. open.substack.com/pub/dailymetaf…
In 1933, Ernest Hemingway survived a medical situation while on safari at the base of Kilimanjaro. He was 33. In 1933, the average life expectancy of a male in the U.S. was 61. In 1961, Hemingway died. He was 61. substack.com/profile/116562…
On this date in 1978, @MuhammadAli defeated Leon Spinks in 15 rounds to reclaim the World Heavyweight title he had lost from Spinks exactly seven months earlier. The fight was held in the Superdome, with 63,000 in attendance. Some 90 million watched it on ABC in the United…
With all the #alien news out of Mexico today, it got me wondering where that word "alien" comes from--its etymology. From John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins: "The essential notion contained in alien is of 'otherness.' Its ultimate source is Latin alius 'other' (which is…
Who can forget the famous quote, most often attributed to Benjamin Franklin*, spoken in 1776 to the signers of the Declaration of Independence (and by extension, the colonies that the signers represented). “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang…
"The Bible of X" Who started this form, calling something (usually a book) "The Bible of _____"? That would make for a great study, to trace back and see its origin. By now, the phrase is almost a cliche'--at least, that's how I see it. But I've not written the Bible on…
BOOK PUBLISHING HAS A TOYS "R" US PROBLEM You understand the title's analogy only if you know and agree that the "Toys 'R' Us problem" was getting bought by a private equity firm. Otherwise, the fan of S&S clicks through, thinking that the analogy = "S&S will go bankrupt." S&S…
A POLYPTOTON sighting: "His only puzzlement seems to be that the nation’s problems puzzle others." From @GeorgeWill re: @VivekGRamaswamy:
ANALOGY by @elonmusk The incessant opening of one's email is preferred above sitting alone with your thoughts for 15 minutes : Getting physically shocked is preferred above sitting alone with your thoughts for 15 minutes. #Elonanalogy
Best Simile of the day: A very stout, very gripey middle-aged couple galumphed into the cabin next to mine ... standing in the hallway wearing nothing but his blue skivvies...He looked like Archie Bunker after swallowing a sugar kettle whole. @roddreher roddreher.substack.com/p/postcard-fro…
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