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't say 'the road curved like a cat's tail' is necessarily bad because roads aren't furry- what if the context is surrealist?

Likewise you can't say 'this is a good metaphor' with any objectivity unless you have the full text http://there.by  which to judge. It's less fun, but writing is about specificity

I might say, just don't use too many metaphors in the one poem or on. The one page but I don't know the effect you're going for. Maybe overloading is the plan. Even clichés work in the context of a text filtered through a clichéd character's pov, for example

If you don't want to use a metaphor or simile at all in your text, that'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.

Anyway, there aren't shortcuts or statements that will work for everyone. It's a wild wild world