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That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.

My favorite writing analogy is from MST3K's "The Screaming Skull:" "So they put a tiny bit of plot in a box and just filled the rest with a bunch of foam peanuts. This, for example, this scene is a foam peanut. Maybe two." Now when I'm writing, I'll ask, "Is this scene a foam peanut?"

Sometimes you don't know right away, though! I wrote a scene in one of my books where a character is walking his (shy, nervous) dog and has to deal with annoying neighbor who doesn't control her larger, exuberant dog. 1/2