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| EASY AS PIE Even with a calculator, or an old slide rule, I could never get the ingredients to add up to pie. |
George Orwell says:
WHEN WRITING A SENTENCE YOU SHOULD ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF:
1. What am I trying to say?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
From Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures:
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans and biscuits - all sitting angry, congealed and cold on the stove where Amma had left them. Usually, she kept my dinner warm for me until I got home from practice, but not today. I was in a lot of trouble.
Scratch and sniff novels are never going to work, authors need to craft sensational imagery:
Sweet but oh-so red, poor Zannah made a juicy filling for her cream puff dress.
Fly-light flour dusted every surface in the kitchen and the finger-sticking margarine wouldn't leave my hands alone, but just let it wait until I got to the rolling pin stage: I was going to teach that pastry a lesson.
Hunting down the car thief was as easy as pie: Wegman's, aisle two, second fridge, you couldn't miss them.
CAN YOU NAME A CHARACTER, IN A MOVIE OR IN LITERATURE, WHO LOVED TO COOK?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
From Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures:
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans and biscuits - all sitting angry, congealed and cold on the stove where Amma had left them. Usually, she kept my dinner warm for me until I got home from practice, but not today. I was in a lot of trouble.
Scratch and sniff novels are never going to work, authors need to craft sensational imagery:
Sweet but oh-so red, poor Zannah made a juicy filling for her cream puff dress.
Fly-light flour dusted every surface in the kitchen and the finger-sticking margarine wouldn't leave my hands alone, but just let it wait until I got to the rolling pin stage: I was going to teach that pastry a lesson.
Hunting down the car thief was as easy as pie: Wegman's, aisle two, second fridge, you couldn't miss them.
CAN YOU NAME A CHARACTER, IN A MOVIE OR IN LITERATURE, WHO LOVED TO COOK?
