by Maureen Lynas
One of the great things about attending a crit group is
realising that you and other writers have ‘tics’ in common. By helping to
identify them together you can help each other to remove them and improve your
writing.
Here are two tics that came up during our latest crit
session.
Metaphors and similes.
Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Beware the cliché - as
brave as a lion
Beware The Blackadder
Syndrome - This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the
Hundred Years War – unless you
are Ben Elton, Richard Curtis or another genius of comedy.
