Writer’s Wisdom -Rule #38- Avoid Clichés and Stock Phrases

Writer’s Wisdom -Rule #38- Avoid Clichés and Stock Phrases “You have only words. Don’t combine them in predictable ways. If a reader can anticipate how you’re going to end a phrase, you’re ‘dead in the water’. An editor might let you get by with one, very deep, in a two hundred page manuscript. Any more and you’re  rejected.”


Taken from The Writer’s Book of Wisdom - 101 Rules for Mastering Your Craft, by Steven Taylor Goldsberry,(http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Boo...)