Wordy Wednesday
Here is a list of Useful Phrases for writers. It is hard sometimes to come up with that perfect phrase that fits the billet, that completes the thought and rounds off the idea.
I offer you 26 phrases that will help any writer. The words can be moved about, added to or changed in any manner that appeals and becomes of use to the novelist, journalist, blogger or any person who puts pen to paper or uses the keyboard.
Dark and deep as night or dark and cavernous as night. Having the main idea helps but many changes could be implemented to twist and form the phrases to suit the text and add depth and breadth to it.
- abbreviated visit
- Barricade the road to truth
- Continuous as the stars that shine
- Dark and deep as night
- Ears that seemed as deaf as dead man’s ears
- Fair as a star when only one is shining in the sky
- Glistening like threads of gold
- Haunts you like the memory of some former happiness
- I saw his senses swim dizzy as clouds
- Jovial as a foolish clown
- Kindle like an angel’s wings the western skies in flame
- Like the dew on the mountain
- Mentality as hard as bronze
- Now memory and emotion surged in my soul like a storm
- Old as the evening star
- Perished utterly, like a blown out flame
- Quiet as a nun’s face
- Ran like a young fawn
- Shaken off like a nightmare
- The birds swam the flood of air like tiny ships
- Unbreakable as iron
- Vague as a dream
- Wearing their wounds like stars
- Your blood is red like wine
Hoping that these help you along to better and clearer writing with changes and additions to make them your own.