{"id":13371,"date":"2016-02-01T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2016-12-03T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:12:41","slug":"the-wind-made-the-reeds-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2016\/02\/the-wind-made-the-reeds-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The wind made the reeds gossip\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kindle your creativity<\/h2>\n<p>All these years later, I&#8217;m still grateful for the Kindle app on my iPad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34869\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kindle-your-creativity.jpg\" alt=\"Kindle your creativity\" title=\"Kindle your creativity\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34869 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/360;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kindle-your-creativity.jpg\" alt=\"Kindle your creativity\" title=\"Kindle your creativity\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34869\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Bring to light<\/strong> Use your e-reader to highlight and archive great examples of analogy to model. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/curiouslee\/4491419885\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Image\" target=\"_blank\">Image<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/curiouslee\/\" title=\"Mike Lee\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Lee<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I thought the thing I\u2019d love most about reading on my devices would be the extra mini-fridge-sized space it leaves in my luggage for necessities like thick Marimekko sweaters and airport-sized Fazer chocolate bars that I collect on my trips. But the truth is, my favorite feature is &#8220;My clippings,&#8221; a tool that transforms my highlights and notes into text that I can transfer to my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of months of reading on a reader, I decided to review my clippings. What I found will help me \u2014 and, I hope, you \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/writing\/model-the-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\">model the masters<\/a>, or steal techniques from some of the year&#8217;s best writers to make your own writing more creative and compelling.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2010\/06\/use-metaphor-not-modifiers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Use metaphor, not modifiers<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>One problem with modifiers \u2014 <em>thin, lean, straight<\/em> \u2014 is that they don&#8217;t paint pictures in your readers&#8217; heads. Instead of simply describing your subject with adjectives and adverbs, <a href=\"http:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2010\/06\/go-beyond-description\/\" target=\"_blank\">engage your readers&#8217; senses with analogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Lorrie Moore did in this passage from <em>A Gate at the Stairs:<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 30px 30px;box-shadow: 0 0 10px;padding: 5px 15px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n&#8220;She wore glasses, and behind them I could see her eyebrows were shaved into a thin line\u2014the stubble showing both above and below. The thin line was lengthened at the end with an eyebrow pencil, which <strong>looked about as natural as if she had just taped the pencils themselves over her eyes<\/strong>.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meg Gardiner used the same technique to describe a charismatic religious leader in her Edgar Award-winning mystery, <em>China Lake:<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 30px 30px;box-shadow: 0 0 10px;padding: 5px 15px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n&#8220;Peter Wyoming didn\u2019t shake hands with people; <strong>he hit them with his presence like a rock fired from a sling-shot<\/strong>. <strong>He was a human nail<\/strong>, lean and straight with brush-cut hair, and when I first saw him <strong>he was carrying a picket sign and enough rage to scorch the ground<\/strong>.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Colum McCann may be the master of this approach. His National Book Award-winning novel, <em>Let the Great World Spin,<\/em> includes passage after passage of description through analogy:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 30px 30px;box-shadow: 0 0 10px;padding: 5px 15px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n&#8220;On weekend mornings we strolled with our mother, ankle-deep in the low tide, and looked back to see the row of houses, the tower, and <strong>the little scarves of smoke coming up from the chimneys<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corrigan drove me through the South Bronx under the flamed-up sky. <strong>The sunset was the color of muscle<\/strong>, pink and striated gray. Arson. The owners of the buildings, he said, were running insurance scams. Whole streets of tenements and warehouses abandoned to smolder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cabin was an hour and a half from New York City. It was set back in a grove of trees on the edge of a second, smaller lake. A pond, really. Lily pads and river plants. The cabin had been built fifty years before, in the 1920s, out of red cedar. No electricity. Water from a spring well. A woodstove, a rickety outhouse, a gravity-fed shower, a hut we used for a garage. Raspberry bushes grew up and around the back windows. You could lift the sashes to birdsong. <strong>The wind made the reeds gossip<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Little else to distract attention from the evening, just a clock, in a time not too distant from the present time, yet a time not too distant from the past, the unaccountable unfolding of consequence into tomorrow\u2019s time, the simple things, the grain of bedwood alive in light, <strong>the slight argument of dark still left in the old woman\u2019s hair<\/strong>, the ray of moisture on the plastic lifebag, the curl of the braided flower petal, the chipped edge of a photo frame, the rim of a mug, the mark of a stray tea line along its edge, a crossword puzzle sitting unfinished, the yellow of a pencil dangling over the edge of the table, one end sharpened, the eraser in midair.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(And how do you like that for a 121-word <a href=\"http:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2010\/06\/vary-sentence-length\/\" target=\"_blank\">sentence that works<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>Find yourself writing an adjective or adverb?<\/p>\n<h3>Model the masters<\/h3>\n<p>Regardless of your reading technology, modeling the masters is one of the best ways to improve your writing every day. 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