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Identifying a Cliche



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Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:50 pm
mizz-iceberg says...



I was doing a bit of research for a friend of mine concerning fantasy writing. We had noticed that there were way too may Cliches in fantasy and that with most Fantasy you could guess what was going to happen (which ruined all the fun).

Chance to see of your writing contains cliches you might want to get rid of.
Here are some links to sites I visited and I found helpful in identifying cliches.

Read through, comment, learn.

http://amethyst-angel.com/cliche.html

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrin ... liche.html

http://redmolly.typepad.com/picayunedem ... tter_.html


(I also posted this in the Writing Tips Forum in Community forums)
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:14 am
starrynight89 says...



Oh, so useful..Thank you mizz-iceberg..

It's so hard to identity cliches and this is just really needed.. :D


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Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:37 am
EERC says...



LOL! Very helpful and true :)
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:24 am
Meep says...



Remember, though, just using a cliché does not make the story bad. It's what you do with that cliché that matters.
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:54 pm
Stori says...



Like I always say: En garde! Cliche!

One I find particularly annoying is the "keys to the kingdom" approach, where the band of heroes has to find pieces of an artifact, or sometimes another's memory.
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