#cohesiveness

In her New Yorker article about suspense, Kathryn Schulz uses a clever image to describe how suspense exists at many scales.

…looking again in the old books, I find so much pleasure in the authority of [Cormac McCarthy’s] voice, and the wisdom that flames out from his pages, and it is painful to imagine that such a fire has been extinguished.

Here’s an example of coordinated metaphors, something I wish other writers used more often.

It’s important to keep your metaphors from bumping into one another.