In the November 2006 issue of THE WRITER, John K. Borchardt made the point above in his article, “Harness the Power of Metaphors”. I’d like to expand on that a bit today.
One of the fifty-eight parables of Jesus is The Prodigal Son.
One of Aesop’s thirty-five fables is The Tortoise and the Hare.
Summarize both and think of one situation you’ve either experienced yourself or seen reflected in a movie, expanding on the fable or parable above.
There is a collection of FORDYCE’S SERMONS.
There is the EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
Summarize both and think of one situation you’ve either experienced yourself or seen reflected in a movie, expanding on one of the books above.
The moral of this story is: write short, write powerful.
November 2, 2008
WRITING ADVICE: A PARABLE – “[A] story…[that] teaches…without…a lecture.”
Guy Stewart is a husband; father, father-in-law, grandfather, and recently retired teacher, and school counselor who maintains POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS offering his writing up for comment. His first novel for YA/MS, EMERALD OF EARTH came out in 2024! He also writes on other worlds that have touched his life: GUYS GOTTA TALK ABOUT DIABETES, ALZHEIMERS; BREAST CANCER! He has 70+ publications in Analog, Cast of Wonders, Shoreline of Infinity, Cricket, Stupefying Stories, Nanoism, an essay in The Writer, and created experiments for episodes of the PBS science shows Newton’s Apple, and The New Explorers—for which he became the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year.
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