Shitty First Drafts Question
I'd like to look back on the writers reference to his comparison of food dishes with various ex-presidents' brains.
It's certainly a colorful and eye-catching comparison, but when one is writing about real-world foods, shouldn't comparisons be made to elements that people might have experiences with?
Shouldn't comparisons in reality-grounded work like reviews be useful?
It's certainly a colorful and eye-catching comparison, but when one is writing about real-world foods, shouldn't comparisons be made to elements that people might have experiences with?
Shouldn't comparisons in reality-grounded work like reviews be useful?
The author is using her anecdote of her time as a food reviewer to add an element of humor to this article; while it may seem inappropriate to make an allusion between “mounds of vegetable puree” and “ex-presidents brains’” this usage of satire is for comedic purposes. The author uses this specific moment to transition between explaining in the previous paragraph about the process of writing a “shitty first draft,” into a personal example of this process in the next paragraph. The author uses humor throughout the article as a transitional device; describing how few people are capable of writing excellent first drafts, explaining that “when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Then revealing the reality of the beginning of most writer’s writing processes in the following paragraph.
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