>tfw other people are better at creating insightful metaphors

Don't worry anon, lots of people have autism :)

>>8847211
>I'm not as creative as I'd like to be and heres how I justify it

>>8847211
I feel you anon. I understand what you mean.

Not an excuse, but a challenge; a starting point at any rate.

>>8847211

Yes, a bit actually. I've also noticed that reading poetry (and certain fiction writers) has started to allow me to see the world clothed in metaphor, most of them recalled from metaphors in poems I've come across.

Fiction (novels) has affected my thoughts on people a great deal, but poetry is affecting my quiet walks alone.

What I'm saying, anon, is that this is like EVERYTHING ELSE. It doesn't boil down to a personality test, it boils down to practice.

metaphor abuse is a fast way to kill my interest in a story anyway

use some other goddamn rhetorical devices from time to time

Just as an example, I'll read something like "the connected streams joining into a river look were a dangerous lightning" or maybe "a majestically branching tree". However once you understand fractals in mathematics, it makes sense that different things in the physical world that grow take on similar shapes and it therefore becomes trivial and not poetic to me.