How To Avoid Clichés – That Sounds Familiar

When writing articles, stories for full blown manuscripts it is often in your best interest to avoid common phrases or colloquialisms. Many writers refer to the overuse of these phrases as cliché and they avoid them like the plague.
It may take some work to find new ways to say something you’ve relied on clichés to [...]

2009: the year Hollywood hit New Orleans in search of visual cliches

2009: the year Hollywood hit New Orleans in search of visual cliches
The post-Katrina landcape is great for that post-industrial meltdown vibe, but a Levi’s ad did it best When 9/11 happened it took Hollywood a while to give us its response. The atrocity arrived so suddenly that, well, nobody had anything green-lighted and ready to [...]

Break Free From Cliches

When doing your marketing tool, do not ever think that clichés can get you the results you expect. This is just one of the biggest hoaxes in marketing. Including clichés in your ad copy is like that, a cliché.

Not only do you confuse readers because there is a possibility that they will not be sure [...]

Breaking Free From Using Clichés

Bear with me for a moment, and read the following four lines. Then I will get to the point of this article.

â??The early bird catches the worm.â?

â??Win-win situation.â?

â??Thinking outside the box.â?

â??Bring out the â??Aâ?? game.â?

You have certainly heard all of these phrases before. They are all famous and long-lasting business clichés. In [...]

10 Chick Flick cliches you will NOT see in He’s Just Not That Into You

10 Chick Flick Cliches That Are Not In “He’s Just Not That Into You”. Watch Bradley Cooper, Kevin Connolly, and Justin Long in this hilarious romp poking fun at the “Chick Flick” genre.

Christian Clichés That Contradict Christ

It has been said that if you repeat something often enough, people will start to believe it even if it isnâ??t true. This certainly seems to be true concerning many oft-repeated Christian clichés about God’s love. Consider the following statements that so frequently reverberate within our Christian circles:

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Cheesy Cultural Cliches: Can You Add More?

Whist English contains thousands of loan or borrowed words from languages such as Arabic, Greek, Latin, French and even Sanskrit, our language also uses quite a few proverbs with ethnic or linguistic connotations. English has gone through many periods in which words from a particular language were borrowed. 
For example, the Japanese language has loaned a number [...]

How to “Have Your Cake and Eat it Too” (Using Clichés to Improve Your Life)

The clichés you have heard time and time again actually contain the most timeless advice ever written. For advice to become a cliché, it must stand the test of time. Clichés bridge generations. Knowing this you should be using clichés for decision making and problem solving.
Today, many people are complaining that they do not have [...]

What are the cliches to avoid as a writer with a protagnist who is a writer?

This question is for any avid readers, aspring writers out there like myself, or any full blown authors out there who may be answering. I read a review which said that it’s hard to avoid cliches when writing a story with a protagnist who is a writer, but the review never really went into depth [...]

Cliches…?

What are some cliches that you absolutely hate in books? It can be any kind; fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural.
I just want to see what most people don’t like reading about, or some common occurrences.