Simile Similah
It���s a lot more fun writing a book than finishing it in some ways. For me the trip goes a bit like this. Gets bright idea for a novel. Furiously starts to scribble. Absolutely certain that this is IT. The ONE! It���s AWESOME, and it���s going straight to #1! Finishes book. Makes big announcement. Gets back to editing. Decides book is absolute adverb riddled, tell don���t show drivel. Cries. Starts fixing it. Laughs out loud, realising that it really is AWESOME. Finds more adverbs and a plot hole. No. It���s definitely a lump of coal. Cries. Repairs and rereads through tears. YES! It���s BRILLIANT! But no…. Ahem…
There���s just a week and a bit before my next book goes live, and I���m a very busy bunny making sure that there aren���t any dreaded lurgies still lurking in it. I have an unnatural fondness for adverbs, even though all the world says that they���re devil things, and I also like a funny simile or two in a story, whether it���s supposed to be serious or not. On the fence about removing one of mine, I went looking around for others, and found these.
���A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.��� Steve Martin
���Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.��� Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
���The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.��� Jarod Kintz
���He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.��� Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
���Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs, and then you had the urge to pass it on.��� Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
So I reckon I���ll keep my funny little sentence just the way it is. While I was nosing about the internet, I found this hilarious list of similes from students. Number twelve is my favourite, ���Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.��� Now that really is a brilliant sentence.
