Nice metaphor!

…tting a turn of phrase you love out of your draft is like scraping the icing of your birthday cake. But, sometimes a phrase is just too sweet; it can be cloying rather than compelling, and it can give your reader a toothache.
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Andrew Jazprose Hill
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Nov 11, 2020
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Nice metaphor!
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I write about Art, Culture, and Race in The Jazprose Diaries on Substack. My short stories are there too in The Fiction Fix. Read me, Seymour, read me.
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