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Writing Tip #43: Use Metaphors

Strong writers employ figures of speech like metaphors.

Some writing advice from John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin was a writer and artist, but is best known as an art …

Trust me, Annie Dillard knows more than a little about writing. What do you think of her advice here?

Learn to use conjunctive adverbs. Conjunctive adverbs, as the name suggests, function simultaneously as conjunctions and adverbs. That means they …