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  1. AngeloBraxton

    AngeloBraxton New Fellow member

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    There'southward a part in my short story that's really bugging me. The sentence is, "I was equally happy as always." It seems too simple and its driving me CRAZY. Does anybody have any skillful similes for happiness?
  2. garmar69

    garmar69 Contributor Contributor

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    Is this for a section of dialogue?
  3. Well, there'southward joyful, ecstatic, cheerful, glad, blissful, and contented, but it really depends on whether or not its a dialogue or not.
  4. Cogito

    Cogito Sometime Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

    I take it you are looking for similes, not synonyms.

    Happy as a clam is i cliche simile. Happy as a hog in sh*t is another, as is pleased as punch.

    If you want a simile that isn't a cliche, you should come up with yourself, and consider connecting it with something in your story. As happy as a day with Julia would convey joy and at the same time reveal the character's feelings toward Julia.

  5. What's an 'ever'? This makes no sense...
  6. Dcoin

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    Equally happy as Fri at 5 o'clock.
  7. Cogito

    Cogito Old Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

    You could always become for a humorous simile, along the lines of:
    - Equally happy every bit a musquito in a nudist colony.
    - Equally happy as a kitten in a yarn shop.

    Peculiarly if information technology's a scrap rude (and non very PC):
    - As happy equally a bishop in a boys' schoolhouse.

  8. As happy equally Michael Jackson at a boy'south slumber political party.

    I love Michael Jackson, btw.

    You lot can also show that she is happy rather than tell united states.

    An orangish-piece smile brightened her confront like one of those little smiley faces baring all its teeth. She twirled around and her center sang a blithesome song. The sun shined brightly every bit she skipped dwelling.

    Sometimes writing a few sentences is the only way to really show how happy someone is.

  9. I retrieve the sentence itself, "I was as happy equally ever" sounds funny because there should be more to information technology. Like for example, "I was as happy as I ever had been." However that is wordy. Also the tense, is this a idea, dialog, or narrative summery? If it is written in the first person, it is more like narrative summery in the offset person. It seems like this could be done out in idea course, "I am happier than always before." "The happiness tingled through me from head to toe like a jolt lightening" (second one is somewhere between first person thoughts and narrative, withal still descriptive.

    You could also re-word it like: I am more happy now, than always before. I was the happiest I've ever been.

    Just, like cog said, it is ameliorate to make it applicable to your character's situation, then try to come up with something to avoid sounding platitude.

  10. Cogito

    Cogito Quondam Modern, Retired Supporter Contributor

    One point that seems to be orbiting this discussion, without having yet been explicitly said, is that the give-and-take as does not automatically hateful you are dealing with a simile.
  11. AngeloBraxton

    AngeloBraxton New Member

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    Aye, I already know that. Nonetheless, what better than a simile to replace that old crap bag judgement?
  12. Past showing usa that she's happy every bit e'er, whereby fugitive the sentence all together.

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