Comments on: Reason #15: You’re a Cliché Abuser

By: Tommesha

Tommesha — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:40:31 +0000

When I write my novels, I normally come up with the unheard of. All the kids would line up to read my stories. I’m twelve so I use my imagination. But it makes you think:If a twelve year old makes an original plot, that is like so pathetic. Just saying.

By: yani lea: New with me - MyBlogLog

yani lea: New with me - MyBlogLog — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:43:32 +0000

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By: Christopher Grouse

Christopher Grouse — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:36:58 +0000

I agree that cliches should be expunged from writing but we need to focus on building our creativity. When writing about any given instance, a sunset on a beach for example, see/hear/feel it in your mind first and then describe what it is you see/feel/hear/smell. I also see what you are saying regarding lazy cliches, a lot of people write might write something like this:

Then the sun rose *delicately* over the mountains spilling its beams across the *pastel* landscape bring to the eye *the possibilities of a new day.*

Delicately – All too common word to use, do you know what it means, I don’t and I wrote it.

Pastel – To be honest I did have a pastel color scheme in my head but it is rather overused.

The possibilities of a new day – Do you think I thought that one through at all. No I did not. I pulled out some random uncreative phrase I had heard in the past. It leaves so much unanswered regarding the new day. How does the sun relate to these possibilities?

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Boots and Bibles: Who Were the Real "Keepers"? — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:42:22 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:30 +0000

“wolf:

So am I to assume that it would be wrong to use a transporter beam to get from one dragon back to another, while using my lightsaber to deflect falling asteroid pieces?
Well, there goes chapter six…”

… as long as its just a dream ending

By: Derrick

Derrick — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:10:03 +0000

Prologues are the worst and most widely abused cliche…

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:36:00 +0000

Eragon isn’t cliche abuse… it’s just thinly veiled plagiarism disguised as “inspiration”. It’s like a terribly bad combination of Robert Jordan and Tolkien…

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:33:00 +0000

I had a competition with my sons. I have not read Eragon but I said I would do a general eight point synopsis of it, giving them 50 cents for each point that I got wrong.

I lost money on Eragons lack of gruff fighting dwarves.

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:01:00 +0000

“I hope you do a ‘reason’ on Paolini.”

…speaking of those who abuse clich