Launch day! 🎉
Metaphor Map is a 100+ (and growing) collection of metaphors, similes, and analogies.
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My goal is to gather the most potent, useful, extensible metaphors that other writers can adapt. 1/10
Conversation
Comparisons are one of the best tools writers have to explain their ideas.
Alone, ideas feel obscure, unclear, dense. But once you compare an unknown idea to a known one, you can highlight similarities and differences that make yours vivid. 2/10
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Most collections organize writing examples as if writers merely want to copy them.
My goal is to disambiguate the metaphors from their origins so that you see how one base metaphor can fit a variety of use cases.
The purpose is to transplant, not copy. 3/10
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This first collection includes comparisons from writers living and dead, from marketing and literature, from spoken word and ancient text.
I believe copywriters can learn from Shakespeare and novelists can learn from advertisers.
Metaphors are lenses between fields. 4/10
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Right now, each one is hand-picked (and often hand-transcribed) by me.
Each metaphor has to be potent. I want many, eventually, but size is not my north star. 5/10
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This first batch features metaphors from the writings of and more! 6/10
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Woah, I'm honoured! Also, a really cool project — I see a number of phrases I want to steal nearly immediately.