Joanne Harris, author of fourteen novels including Chocolat, has put together ten of her favourites literary clichés.
They include:
The protagonist who describes herself whilst standing in front of the mirror.
Exposition Man, who says things like: “As you know, we’ve been brothers for twenty years…”
Women Who Play With their Hair. Tossing; tucking; flicking; smoothing – almost as annoying as Women Who Bite Their Lip.
Read the full list on her tumblr account where she has also written a short story that crams as many clichés as she can.
I suspect the opening will give you a sense of deja vu….and it includes one of my pet hates: revealing the colour of the hero’s eyes. Of all the footling crumbs of information to burden the reader with this must be the most useless. The only memorable description I’ve ever read that was worth the ink was…
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