A Metaphor is Like a Strong Spice – You Only Need a Dash

So the other night I sent a snippet from my work-in-progress to my writer friend Victoria Schwab and asked her if I was mixing metaphors.

Nope. I wasn't mixing them. I was overusing them. I was rocking FOUR separate metaphors in one paragraph.

Allow me to share some of them.

like a thick coat of dust.
like a bad cough.
They became weeds in my memory
excise them like a surgeon would a tumor

Bit much, don't you think?

Naturally, Victoria did what any good writer friend would do. She reminded me...