I have a feeling many of you, like me, are still coming down from Holiday high, so here's something easy we can do.
Let's share some dreaded cliches' to remind each other what not to write.
Ok, your turn to leave a cliche' in the comment section.
Morgan Mandel
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PS - Blogger has been playing tricks. If you get a little box asking for word verification, put anything in the word line underneath, fill the rest in, then the actual word verification will appear. You may have to repeat, but it will take then. Nothing is perfect in this world. I can't complain since Blogger is free.
12 comments:
....she loved him to the core of her being....
Cold as a witch's tit/brass monkey's balls
Said by a vampire of any advanced years, to a virtuous (if not virginal) mortal female: "I've been waiting forever for you. No one else has ever meant what you do to me."
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
I had to delete numerous cliches from my MS. Even phraes or words can be liche, like RED HERRING, or LIKE CLOCKWORK.
Stephen Tremp
That one about humidity strikes home today!
Morgan
All over him like fleas on a dog.
One thing about cliches is how they can be clever if you put a real twist on them. I just read a grat one in a Harlan Coben book, but darned if I can find it.
Till the cows come home.
What the heck does that mean anyway? LOL!
I part of this should be looking where the phrase came from in the first place.
Like a cat on a hot tin roof. I love that one two. And what cat is going to go on a roof that's hot unless it's to escape a predator.
Lynn
Sorry I can't spell or proofread today. Don't know what's wrong...LOL!
It must be the heat.
Is that a cliche? LOL!
Lynn
I try to use my cliches in dialogue. Then someone else is saying them.
I like Terry's idea, as I still like a good cliche or two. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?
And you can't beat a dead horse. (which is terrible either way.) Not sure I want to know the origins of that one.
I seem to be seeing way too many Adonises around. Or Greek gods. Why does every romance hero have to look like a Greek god? There sure are a lot of them around these days...
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