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I am writing an essay for class and I want to write something about my power-lifting regimen. The problem is that I can not come up with a good starting line. Every thing I come up with seems clumsy and flawed.
So after some thinking I've come to decide how to start but I am having trouble with certain phrases. Here is what I have come up with so far

The bar sits ever so stubbornly in the palm of my hands, waiting for that one chance to bring me down, both literally and figuratively.

I am a non-native English speaker and I am struggling with making it sound right. Can you help me in making this sentence better-sounding.

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Hi Bidit Acharya, this sounds like a great question for writers.stackexchange.com – JAM Oct 17 '12 at 4:17
@JAM - This was closed there; rephrasing requests are off-topic there, since there cannot possibly be a single correct answer. Longer critique questions, however, are fine, although there are guidelines even for those. – Neil Fein Oct 18 '12 at 2:25
@NeilFein thanks for letting me know. Pity, though. I should have thought rephrasing would be a good fit with the site. Sure there can't be a single correct answer, but it would be such a good discussion. – JAM Oct 18 '12 at 2:58
@JAM - You point out the problem: Stack Exchange sites are not meant for discussion, they're question and answer sites, not discussion forums. – Neil Fein Oct 18 '12 at 3:26

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It sounds pretty good to me. I'm not sure if you need the "both literally and figuratively" comment unless your going to be saying more about the literal and figurative nature of it.

It's a pretty nice sentence. Maybe you should clarify what kind of bar it is for someone who is not familiar with power-lifting. Can you say the "bar bell" or something like that which introduces the context?

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How about this?: The bar lies stubbornly in my palms, waiting quietly for its next chance to bring me down.

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