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About me

Mel is a full-time freelance writer who's written web pages, guides, e-courses, articles, and product descriptions, as well as ghostwriting a whole stack of books on a wide range of topics. Mel is the author of The Ultimate Copywriter, Travel Writing Secrets, How to Write a Children's Book; and author of the children's books Flutter Bunnies and The Legend of Lumpus & Ogols.

He writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry and has a series of children's books being published by Guardian Angel Press, the first of which (Flutter Bunnies) was released in December 2008. Find out more by visiting http://topcopyguy.blogspot.com/.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Writing and music

I know too much about ...

too little!

My parents always told me ...

to wear clean underwear

My childhood ambition ...

To get published.

My favorite memory ...

too many.

Why I write ...

Because I can.

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Poetry analysis: To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell by Stella Mcintyre

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Arts & Humanities > Thoughts on Writing Examples of metaphors and how to use them: 4 of 28

A metaphor is a word that directly links two seemingly unrelated things, like God and a fortress as in "a mighty fortress is our God". Metaphors are figures of speech used in poetry and various other types of creative writing. They're employed in the same way as similes, but without the words "like" or "as". One of the most famous metaphors might be Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage". You probably use metaphors yourself all the time without necessarily realizing it. For instance, if you've ever referred to "that neck of the woods" or to someone who's "rolling in dough" then you've bee...
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