How to write great analogies
Great analogies make your writing come alive.
But they are hard to come up with.
Recently, I surprised myself with these too:
I tweeted this a few days ago:
October 18th 2021
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And I came up with this during my Coffee & Pens podcast interview with Ben Guest (to be released in a few weeks). (And I can't remember the exact words I used.
Writing a book is much like good coaching.
A coach works during the week, but in the weekend the players need to make the decisions. When you write a book, you get to do all the writing, but in the weekend, you won't go inside the reader's living room and tell them how to interpret the story.
So what do these two analogies have in common?
They are bringing two seemingly unrelated things together: Babies and persuasion. Writing and coaching.
I think that's the key to great analogies.
Mostly, they'll just come out of thin air when you least expect it. But you can push it a little by being more present, having better conversations and stop fearing to say something stupid.
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