Sean Howard
1 min readOct 16, 2016

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Never explain your metaphors and similes.

Of course you can do as you please. But I believe that Aesop destroyed the western world when he chose to add the morals to each tale. These didn’t exist in the originals.

Your writing weaves and blurs. It is poetic in its use of metaphor and simile. It is powerful.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to understand why some stories create change and others don’t.

I’ve come to realize that a question and the unexplainable are two of the most powerful vehicles in existence.

What would happen if you instead asked someone what they took from a passage? What they saw or questioned?

You live a life of vulnerability and introspection that very few understand. Your super powers come from this.

But I am a little drunk. So please disregard if the wine is speaking.

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Sean Howard
Sean Howard

Written by Sean Howard

Sean is a brand marketer, podcaster and co-founder of Fable and Folly. https://fableandfolly.com/

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