Similes are like curry …

According to US literary agent blog king, Nathan Bransford, similes can be like a curry – too many bad ones and everything goes to …

Okay, you get what I mean … see http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2008/02/your-similes-are-like-giant-flood.html for the man’s words of wisdom.

I have to say, I adore a good simile. And you can’t act on allllll the advice you read else you’ll end up as dull as ditchwater book. But it’s funny, you know. I did a search for ‘like’ in just the first part of my novel and it came up with 25 similes. In the first 90 pages! WTF?

So yes, I have gone in and taken the ‘bad’ ones out, here’s hoping I can tell good from bad!

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