Having gotten to what feels like a secure place in my own estimation personal identity, it is quite nice to not worry about it.
Lately I have seen the use of simile and metaphor in stories that I feel is quite clever. There are likely other literary tools that I don't even know about. I smile at the thought that some of you simply thought you were writing something that appealed to you, or you thought you were just writing out your pain, and along the way some of you have become very skilled at wordsmithing.
In "Twice Removed" I notice the author writing on two levels about finally facing who she was as an alien creature, while I have noticed many humans wrestling with facing who they are in real life as being transgendered is concerned. I've seen snippets of the same phenomena in other writers here but did not have the foresight to make a list while it was still fresh in my mind; pity that.
In my rather casual studies of Psychology and human nature it is clear that huumans often set out to do one thing and accomplish another. At times I am sure that the very heavens laugh at us.
Gwen
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It often happens that people
It often happens that people are tongue-tied in real life, but eloquent in "fiction".
You and I are the exception! I've been told, I 'could talk a starving dog off a meat waggon'. What a visual !
Karen
What a picture !
I can see it now.
It reminds me of a recent story about Trump. He was apparently visiting a group of Native Americans and they were very courteous to him, awarding him with an Indian name. He is now Walking Eagle. Later when quiried about the meaning of the name, the chief said it means that he is so full of it that he can not fly. :)
Gwen
LOL!
The tribes seem to be quite fond of mocking people in that way. Seemingly all niceness and smiles to their face, but then they go and "award" them a mocking name and let them think it was otherwise whilst laughing behind their back at their foolishness. The mocking names are all like that too, take a normally majestic animal, and then tag it with a debilitation that someone unversed in Native customs wouldn't recognize as mocking. Names that are truly awarded for things like valor etc actually tend to be the exact opposite, a seemingly humble animal, raised to greatness with the attached descriptive words.
Abigail Drew.
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The last paragraph reminded me of someone's definition of a Freudian Slip: When you say one thing and mean your mother.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)