Literary Devices

And it’s kind of

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And it’s kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I’ve used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I’ve actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my … Read more

Code is not like

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Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn’t have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of … Read more

The thing to remember

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The thing to remember when you’re writing, he said, is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don’t care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into–if you can make a story true for the reader, … Read more

Do you know what

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Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord’s Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to … Read more