Top 10 Storytelling Cliches Writers Need To Stop Using
By Rob W. Hart
There are certain storytelling clichés writers go back to again and again. And they shouldn't. Because they are terrible, and they need to be destroyed.
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What makes a reader hate a screenplay on sight? Here are 10 pet peeves - and fixes.
Cliche, the Literary Default
Stories start from a default position of cliché: readers go into stories with expectations, and if too many are fulfilled the spell is broken. So, how do writers engage when the odds are against them?
Learning from Clichés… then Leaving them Behind
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Cliche
To achieve excellence, a writer must learn to identify and eliminate clichés. Chuck demonstrates the use of placeholders where more inventive language is needed, while counter-intuitively recommending style mimicry as a positive stage of learning.
