Coming up with a good simile is hard… like concrete.
Thankfully, if you just keep a few tips in mind, they can be a little easier… like making instant ramen.
So let’s go ahead and get started… like a race! (Okay, I’ll stop now.)
Tag: Unfortunate Animals
My book Metl: The ANGEL Weapon came out today! Hooray!
To celebrate, we did a live Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything)… with a creative twist.
Instead of just answering questions in the normal, boring way, we answered them as if they were writing prompts.
Did you know that a polar bear’s skin is black underneath its fur? Or that bell crickets can only hear through their feet?
Neither did I, until today! And it’s all thanks to the Japanese “Unfortunate Animals” book, full of “unfortunate” facts about a whole variety of creatures.
The realm has been at war for over a century. Humans, goblins, elves, trolls — the four races have never known peace.
Until a new decree is passed. In an effort to stop the never-ending bloodshed, a new law allows students from different races to study at other kingdoms’ schools. No school is allowed to discriminate based on race, and all applicants must be accepted.
The only problem? A dragon has applied to go to dragon-slaying school.
For the last stream’s exercise, we tried out a new exercise: using the Japanese book “Unfortunate Animals” for inspiration.
“Unfortunate Animals” is the name of a book series that’s popular in Japan, where every page has an “unfortunate” fact about animals. For example, most firelies can’t light up, or eels are only black because they’re sunburned, or rhinos’ horns are actually warts.
For the exercise, we opened up to three random pages, translated the “unfortunate” fact, and then chat picked which one we’d write about. They voted on this one: Cows produce 180 liters of drool per day.
Here’s what we came up with: