Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.