Cliches and some things to do with them
Sooner or later, most writers go through a period of worrying that their work is full of clichés. Some folks take this to ridiculous extremes; one person I ran into was worried about their heroine's hair color, because it just seemed clichéd to have her be blonde, brunette, or redhead, but the writer couldn't think of anything else (non-natural hair colors having been discarded for some reason).
People fret endlesslyabout whether their plot has been used before, or used so often it's become...
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Megan
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Jul 12, 2010 08:55PM
Well said! My literature teacher told me he refused to read or acknowledge anything written in the past hundred year because it was clichéd. He said every original or worth-while idea has been used so now it is impossible for a "good book" or even a "worth-while book" to be written. I need to show him this!
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