Metaphors

Cake-mixing metaphor for learning

9 December 2023 by Jennifer

About adding new stuff bit by bit, not all at once.

7 January 2012 by Jennifer

Musings about character, plot and so on.

29 September 2011 by Jennifer

Ideas from various other people on the subject of getting on with things, getting unstuck etc, and a few comments & comparisons from me.

28 September 2011 by Jennifer

No facts here that haven’t already been reported elsewhere, just my own reflections.

11 August 2011 by Jennifer

Memories, metaphor and song, on the death of a friend

10 August 2010 by Jennifer

Some what-ifs about our world, prompted by a quote from Alice Walker.

29 January 2010 by Jennifer

Following on from the metaphor of “gearing up”, here are some “example gears”, and some more things I thought about it as I experimented.

7 January 2010 by Jennifer

Sometimes it’s not a bad idea to “do the easy things first” – because sometimes once you’re “on a roll”, the hard things don’t seem so hard.

27 November 2009 by Jennifer

2-minute animation of a metaphor for life, featuring the words of Alan Watts.

3 April 2009 by Jennifer

Some thoughts on saving, retrieving, handing on or losing information. Ratchets, branches, channels, dead ends etc.

9 October 2007 by Jennifer

On having lots of ideas all trying to get out at once (short)