Best similes and metaphors are short and originalJames J. Kilpatrick
Lots of stuff annoys readers—long passages in italics, omitting quotation marks, yada, yada—reported the WashingtonPostlast year. I wrote up these reader pet peeveshereandhere. One I share with thePostkvetchers is the tendency of authors to describe even the most incidental female character i...
It has threatened rain all week. Indeed, the raincoats have travelled with us in the back of the car, but we haven’t needed them. The sun has tangoed with the clouds and it has never been chilly. Poppins and myself have happily clambered around the Marche Littoral (coastline walk) in...
rama.com/movie_scripts/b/the-birds-script-screenplay.html, lines 1809-1811) The film has sudden frightening action. Almost always the setting is open, so that there is never a place to hide. Hitchcock does this to excite the audience and leave them with a good impression of him and his...