Does the plot tend to be useful or can it just result in a pile of crap?

Good afternoon I recently came up with two ideas for a story on Wattpad. And today I came up with the idea of ​​combining the two. However, I'm not sure if the plot would be boring that way. I'm rather unsure about this area, so I came up with the idea of ​​asking random people…

Is it a metaphor?

Hey, I have to write a poem for school in which I revive a dead metaphor. I would have tried the metaphor "losing a word," but I'm not sure whether that's a metaphor or a dead metaphor. Originally, I wanted to revive "not losing a word," but that didn't make sense in the context of…