Friday, December 02, 2011

The image from Hell

Are you writing like a person who wants to write but has lost their pen in a snowstorm that came from a sky filled with clouds that were like cotton wool that had been dipped in ink and that would explain where your pen had gone? 

That chair you're sitting on: is it hard like a nail but that can't be right because nails are pointy and it's best not to sit on them if you can avoid it so maybe it's hard like a celebrity's heart but who'd want to feel that squishing round under their buttocks?  Or perhaps it's soft instead.  Soft like ...

It's OK, I haven't gone (completely) insane.  I'm talking about deciding when you need a simile and choosing the best image.  The above was inspired by this wonderful collection. 

Enjoy.

3 comments:

stephen said...

Very, very amusing. There are so many good ones, but I loved nos 15 and 18...

Sue Guiney said...

These are great. And some of them are, like, I mean, real clever,

Rebecca Bradley said...

They are absolutely brilliant. Brilliant like putting brilli and ant together. Actually together. :)