Kaylee Spring
Do you know where the term 'cliche' comes from? It originates in French, meaning 'to click', and came about as an onomatopoeia from the sound a stereotype or electrotype used in a printing press made when hammering out an often-used phrase.
All this to say, aspiring writers should strive to be cliche. Not in their writing itself, but in their habits as writers. Just like the 'cliche' sound so often heard in a printing press, you should strive to make both your writing habits and your reading habits such a well-oiled machine that the clicking of your keyboard becomes cliche. It's what you do. You read and you write. All the time.
All this to say, aspiring writers should strive to be cliche. Not in their writing itself, but in their habits as writers. Just like the 'cliche' sound so often heard in a printing press, you should strive to make both your writing habits and your reading habits such a well-oiled machine that the clicking of your keyboard becomes cliche. It's what you do. You read and you write. All the time.
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Bruce
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Kaylee Spring:
I'm surprised my review of "The Nude Painter" didn't show up here, only over in the book's comments and reviews. Excellent book!! Now I'm reading Writer (but no one's living nude yet), and have Musician next in my "to reads." What do you plan for Book 4 in the series, Ms Spring? Great writing, great characters, great sex. I love your work!
Bruce
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Kaylee Spring:
I wish you could get Goodreads to do a better job of listing your books, so I could keep track of my Reads easier andknow which to do next. Goodreads suddenly seems frustrating, doesn't have Stormy Paradise: A Second-Chance Romance Beach Read or a lot of other books by you and other authors. And so hard to manually suggest/add in, system bots leave typos unchangeable. Why? Keep up the great work, Kaylee!
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