Round 23, Hour 22

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What are your favorite writing metaphors? Is writing a fic like cooking something? Is it like writing a computer program? Is it like sticking a bucket outside and hoping words will rain into them? Or is it like fighting off a pack of ninja penguins with alien fish?

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[sid]

I'm late, but I want to try this metaphor thingy! :-D

Writing is like driving a bus, except that the characters on the bus tell you where to go. And new characters get on at the stops, and other characters are pulling the cord because they want to get off even though you're not at a stop and you're not through with them yet....

Or, it's like stepping into a boat and pushing away from the shore, and sometimes you're paddling against the current and sometimes you're going whereever the current takes you... and sometimes you crash into an obstacle you didn't even see coming because it's beneath the surface, and sometimes you lose your paddle....

That was fun! :-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks for sharing your metaphors!