Metaphors to Enrich your Writing

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Bring some life to your writing with snappy wordplay.

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When you need to describe something: a feeling, atmosphere or landscape, it's often useful to take the reader's mind elsewhere by creating word pictures and metaphor. With examples from literature, we’ll learn to enrich our metaphors and notice the difference between tired cliche and snappy wordplay.

About the Presenter:

Dani Nichols is an award-winning children’s book author (Buzz the Not-So-Brave, pub. July 2023), Substack author and freelance essayist with pieces published in 20+ publications. She also works as a coach and editor to help writers sharpen their work and get published, and teaches writing classes at COCC.

Central Oregon Writers Guild's mission is to provide Central Oregon area writers a forum for mutual support and education through meetings, annual events and workshops. Our goal is to advance growth and success for individual writers of all genres and skill levels. Founded in 2002, the Guild is a non-profit organization, run entirely by volunteers.

Guild meetings take place on a monthly basis, where we feature guest speakers, panels, member readers and small group interaction, with topics of interest to writers at all skill levels. Meetings are free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org