How to Edit Out the Clichés in a Manuscript
Don't let overused phrases and tired-out plot lines land your manuscript submission at the top of an editor's rejection pile. Before you send your manuscript to an editor, read through it very carefully to eliminate as many clichéd terms and ... [... more]
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés (The Facts on ...
 fine reference: This is another fine reference from the Facts on File Writer's Library, and is a terrific resource for writers, readers, students and teachers. Phrases are listed alphabetically, though alphabetizing phrases can be tricky, and if you can' [... more]
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The Tough Guide To Fantasyland - Review - Fiction Writing
The Tough Guide To Fantasyland is a tongue-in-cheek dictionary of fantasy clichés and norms. Diana Wynne Jones read at St Anne's College, Oxford in 1953, a student of both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. She has been writing fantasy for over forty ... [... more]
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Avoiding exposition pitfalls - Fiction Writing
There are some areas in a story where you simply have to give an explanation to your reader, but there are some common mistakes and clichés many writers resort to in order to either avoid using direct narrative exposition, or through poor ... [... more]
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How to Attract Women to Enterprise IT Jobs
Whenever a journalist asks whether or why women hate IT, grumps trot out the usual laundry list of clichés and stereotypes about women's supposed genetic disposition against math and science, the lack of role models or the profession's geeky ... [... more]
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Government Debt Has No Upside
There are numerous clichés concerning the national (i.e. federal government) debt. In this article I attempt to show the grain of truth (and pile of falsehood) in these typical statements. But before doing so, I will first give a quick primer on .. [... more]
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Frank Chodorov, R.I.P.
It was almost twenty years ago that I first met Frank Chodorov. It was at one of those luxurious but terribly dreary cocktail parties that have long served as rallying ground for the These and similar clichés have long provided the feeble ... [... more]
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How to Avoid Clichés in Fantasy Writing
The fantasy genre gives writers lots of freedom to create new worlds. However, many authors keep returning to stock fantasy settings, stock plots and stock characters. You're probably quite familiar with the young farm boy who discovers his ... [... more]
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Be Yourself (and 5 Other Cliches)
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Be Yourself and Five Other Cliches
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Barron's Pocket Guide to Clichés: "Hit the Road" ...
Amazon.com Review: This is an entertaining little volume, and oddly addictive to folks who love a good, tired turn of phrase. Open to the M's, for instance, and you'll find "mad as a hatter," which is significantly different from "mad as a [... more]
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Dictionary of Word Origins: A History of the Words, ...
Intriguing, Instructional, Curious: Jordan Almond's "Dictionary of Word Origins" is an intriguing look at phrases and words we all toss about apart from their original meaning. This book is about those original meanings of cliches. This is [... more]
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