Liam O'Flynn

While ostensibly a writing guide for middle- to high-school age students, this workbook is useful for helping you string together words to come up with some beautiful metaphors for whatever descriptive writing you're trying to enhance. It teaches you that words are building blocks that can be strung together. Don't have a metaphor handy for inspiration? No worries... This book teaches you how to create your own.

Now if you infuse -all- of your writing this heavily you'll be accused of writing purple prose. But when you just don't know how to describe something, this will help you generate a page full of examples upon which you will likely find 3 or 4 that you like.

My only grip is the lack of clear spacing between paragraphs in the descriptive portions of this text. They were neither spaced, nor indented, making it difficult to read. The most valuable part of this book are all the tables, but please ... indent? It cost the book a star.… (mais)