EXERCISE: The Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs?

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Original Posting Feb. 20, 2015

Just looking at my bookshelf, or I should say bookshelves, and found this wonderful old reference book again. Flipping through it at random, we might find:

Dizzy as a goose. "Dizzy" was probably used in the old sense of foolish or stupid.

Knock at a deaf man's door.

Seek till you find and you will not lose your labor.

There you go. Three little Proverbs. Now, you could just use one of them in a story, or perhaps you would prefer to use all three? That would also be fine. Use them as is, transform them and perhaps just use their metaphorical meanings, or even mix them up and use them some other way? The important thing is...

Write. Even if you're dizzy as a goose, knocking at a deaf man's door, if you just write until you find it, you will never lose your work. So get to it.