Writing is like…

[JS Wiig]

Writing is like digging for gold: if you wanna find something good, you gotta keep digging. And it helps to dig in the right spot.

What are some of your writing advice metaphors or similes?

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

...trying to fight a Grizzly Bear with a teabag.

Apologies for the dodgy effort -wanted to keep the thread going but my vocabulary failed me, reminds me of a Chuck Norris... thing from years back: Chuck Norris doesn't read books, he just stares at them untill they give him the information he wants
(hopefully someone else will do your title justice)

 

[atsouthorn]

Writing is the speech of the soul.

I kept it simple - which is fittingly my writing style. Depends on my mood also. Yesterday I would have said it's like being punched in the gut repeatedly by Mike Tyson.

 

[Astro Pen]

Writing is finding people you didn't know existed before your pen kissed the paper, and learning their ways.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Writing is like picking a scab - often satisfying but leaves you scarred

 

[JS Wiig]

Writing is continuous refinement.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Writing is wrestling with words of which you can't shake the feeling that they are a bit shy of what you intended to communicate.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Writing is like sculpting. Your first draft is the slab of stone and subsequent drafts are when the real writing begins as you chip it into shape.

 

[Laura R Hepworth]

Writing (for a pantser) is like driving somewhere without a map or GPS: you might know where you want to go, but have no idea how you're going to get there or how long it will take (or how many side-quests you might take along the way).

 

[Wayne Mack]

Writing is like logistics -- getting the right characters in the right place at the right time.

 

[Lumens]

Writing is like words.

 

[msstice]

Writing is like having a thousand person entertainment studio with an unlimited budget that creates shows just for your personal enjoyment, except that the staff go on strike, like, a lot.

 

[sknox]

I hate writing, but I love having written.

Attributed to Dorothy Parker but that has been disputed. Doesn't matter. It's true for me and it reminds me to keep going until the wretched thing is done.

 

[AlexH]

Writing is hell, writing is heaven.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Writing is like sex; 1% inspiration, 99% transpiration.

 

[CTRandall]

Writing is like the film Fantasia, specifically the scene with the dancing hippos, only the hippos should be dancing on a keyboard.

 

[HareBrain]

Writing is like taking a difficult but ultimately satisfying dump, only to find you're still wiping after ten minutes. And then you run out of bog roll. And then, I dunno, the toilet bowl cracks open, pouring its hideous contents over the bathroom floor and leaking them down into the flat below, whose occupant, once in the SAS but then discharged for anger issues, comes up to "have a word". Like that.

 

[Wayne Mack]

Writing is like typing, only much, much slower.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Writing is like writing, writing, writing, delete document, writing, writing, writing, delete document, close program, go out for a walk, start program, writing, writing, writing, delete document, writing, go out to let the neighbours know that they should STOP MAKING NOISE, writing, writing, writing... read back what you just wrote in a frenzy, realise there is a glaring plot-hole... And before you know it the day is over.
Repeat.

 

[Flaviosky]

Writing is like having a brainstorming meeting with people interested on being there, people wanting to be elsewhere, people that are bored, enthusiastic, annoyed, etc, but all these people are actually different versions of yourself.