In The Writer's Book Of Wisdom, author Steven Taylor Goldsberry provides a medley of insightful tips for writers. Here's one of many -- Place abstract ideas next to images. From The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin, comes this example:
... the sand for yards about was blackened with the poisoned dragon-blood. Yet the creature still lived. So great a life is in dragons that only an equal power of wizardry can kill them swiftly. The green-gold eyes were open.
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