> I don't use many metaphors, and I know my writing comes off as very dry. So I'd like to get better at whatever skill or mindset that lets me spice up my writing, rather than my writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course without any flair in presentation.
You realize talking about "writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course" was a metaphor, right? Writing doesn't really plod down courses, only animate actors do that. And you, the writer, weren't _actually_ plodding down any tracks either (unless you were writing on your iphone while plodding down some course somewhere). METAPHOR, MAN!
Might be a bit of a mixed metaphor when you switch to "flair in presentation."
Oh, and talking about 'spicing up' writing is another metaphor, although maybe a kind of tired trite one.
You realize talking about "writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course" was a metaphor, right? Writing doesn't really plod down courses, only animate actors do that. And you, the writer, weren't _actually_ plodding down any tracks either (unless you were writing on your iphone while plodding down some course somewhere). METAPHOR, MAN!
Might be a bit of a mixed metaphor when you switch to "flair in presentation."
Oh, and talking about 'spicing up' writing is another metaphor, although maybe a kind of tired trite one.