Tag Archive | cliches
Enough Already…Well-Loved Literary Clichés
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
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…
Cliché usage and Research? Get them right when you write.
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
It’s Halloween and you would think there would be spooky stories here at LWI, but we’re not really about showing our writing skills here. We have personal blogs and novels for that. A friend suggested to me that I write a spooky story for Halloween for my blog. I…
These Are Not Rules of Fantasy
Originally posted on Legends of Windemere:
Yahoo Image Search A big headache for genre writing is that nearly every reader has their own set of rules about how that genre should work. They have their favorite authors and all others get compared to those ‘elite’. Any deviation is met with disagreement or outright rage because…
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