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Subtweet about writing advice: you really need context of a specific text to give any advice that is meaningful
For example, advice on metaphors (or similes). A weird sounding metaphor can work, depending on what you are trying to achieve. You can& #39;t say & #39;the road curved like a cat& #39;s tail& #39; is necessarily bad because roads aren& #39;t furry- what if the context is surrealist?
Likewise you can& #39;t say & #39;this is a good metaphor& #39; with any objectivity unless you have the full text http://there.by"> http://there.by which to judge. It& #39;s less fun, but writing is about specificity
I might say, just don& #39;t use too many metaphors in the one poem or on. The one page but I don& #39;t know the effect you& #39;re going for. Maybe overloading is the plan. Even clichés work in the context of a text filtered through a clichéd character& #39;s pov, for example
If you don& #39;t want to use a metaphor or simile at all in your text, that& #39;s your choice too. It just has to *be* a choice. intentionality. Exactness with the language
How you learn exactness as a writer depends on how you function as a person. Some people can learn on their own through reading. others might benefit from workshopping their writing (either in an academic context or with a writing group) - seeing how the text engages with others
Then again some books can be written full of repetitious or flimsy constructions and readers might eat it up because the beauty of a line is not their priority when reading.
