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When Pacific Northwest National Laboratory science writer Tom Rickey wrote a release about the lab’s work “Making dams safer for fish around the world,” he didn’t get lost in the scientific gobbledygook.… Read the full article
Hillary Dobbs, a PR pro at Black Hills Power in Rapid City, S.D., recently received this release to distribute to media contacts:
Black Hills Power Hosted New Reliability Center in Rapid City
June 20, 2013 – Rapid City, S.D.:… Read the full article
People in one study rated a disease that kills 1,286 people out of every 10,000 as more dangerous than one that kills 24.14%… Read the full article
The rumor that I moved to Portland, Ore., solely because of the restaurants is only slightly exaggerated.… Read the full article
In Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, Andrew Graham-Dixon compares the artist to the light lights and dark darks of his paintings.… Read the full article
Find analogies, metaphors and similes at GistOut. This site uses Google Custom Search to find metaphors for your topic that have appeared online.… Read the full article
In A Writer’s Coach, Jack Hart shares this story:
“In A Moveable Feast Hemingway recalls the days when he and Fitzgerald careered through the Spanish countryside in an open car, playing the metaphor game.… Read the full article
Once you come up with an analogy, you can make more of your metaphor by extending it.
“If you want to try an extended metaphor, think carefully about your comparison entity,” writes Nancy Kress in Writer’s Digest.… Read the full article
When my grandfather first saw a car, he didn’t think “automobile.” He thought, “That’s a carriage that moves without a horse — it’s a horseless carriage.”… Read the full article
After 15 years of schlepping books from sea to shining sea, I can now fit all of my reading materials into my purse, thanks to Kindle.… Read the full article
