One Day Out Writing—aka A Favourite Cliche

Sometimes when you’re writing — and reading too — you see something so often it becomes invisible. Seamlessly blended into the background, so to speak. (I’m sure you have similar experiences from other aspects of life, e.g. “domestic blindness”.)

One of the great things about writing, though, is that part of the discipline is to look at what you’re writing (as well as the world you’re writing about, Emily Dickinson style) “slant”. This involves looking out for cliches (although they’re very t...