Therese L. Broderick’s free workbook Easy-Assembly Metaphor: For Creative Writers of All Levels (2025) is available as a PDF. To request a copy, contact her:
(518) 903-4432
The workbook’s chapters cover this material:
- Raw Materials: Body-Sensed Stimuli
- Latent Metaphors: Juxtaposition
- Flexible Metaphors: Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, “Of”
- Blended Metaphors: Synesthesia
- Renovated Metaphors: Upgrading Clichés
- Metaphors Galore: Zooming In and Out
- Ethical Metaphor-Making: AI, Agents, etc.
- Organic Metaphors: Your Personal Life
- Aids for Exercises: Ready-Mades
- Deep Dive into Metaphor: Bibliography, Guides for Further Learning, Bonus Advanced Material
Therese L. Broderick, Poet 