Do You Avoid Common Phrases in your Writing?

As writers, we sometimes struggle to add the correct amount of description to our stories. There’s the story barren of description which leaves the reader wanting to find something, anything to latch onto in the world you’ve failed to build. Then there is the other extreme, the story with so much purple description the reader is afraid of each new turn, lest you spend the next five pages describing every insignificance in the setting before the scene can move forward. Usually our writing fall...