March 14th, 2007
Categorized under: Commentary, English and Editing, My Novels, Publishing, Writing

Clichés: Avoid them like the plague

I found a great site that lists many clichés, in alphabetical order: http://www.suspense.net/whitefish/cliche.htm. As any self-respecting writer, I’ve been chasing them out of my prose, but they have a way of sneaking in when you don’t pay attention. Why? Because they’re easy, descriptive, and understood by everybody. That’s why they’ve become clichés.

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I was born in Montreal, Quebec (that’s in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small Quebec Laurentians town called Mont-Laurier. I didn’t stay there long, though, and studied and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, where I obtained my Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.Throughout the years, I’ve been a housekeeper, ...