There is more to writing than the simple rhetoric that most teachers impose their students use when writing an essay and report. The beauty of writing is that even symbolic or metaphorical terminology can be used in order to describe something. Sometimes with even greater effect than a more direct line of literary thought.
That is the real beauty of “Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students,” by E. Shelley Reid. Writing is not so dogmatic that it has a strict set of established rules that demand who a person or event should be described. Expression is about capturing the moment and painting it in such a way that you can understand the severity of what is happening or what something looks like.
Take into account the manner in which a metaphor can be used in describing an object or event. The way the writer can invoke a sense of horror, awe, and fascination to a key event or highlight the ironies of any moment under the pretense of hindsight. That is the real beauty of metaphors in writing and how they can give freedom when it comes to a story beyond the boring undertones of literal writing.
Writing is a boundless profession that can’t be contained within the mundane realms of direct literal description or observation. Rather it can be possessed of flavor and the passion of the moment that makes the reading seem more human rather than a work of professional writing or inhuman.
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