A sure sign that a writer has yet to develop confidence in his or her use of language, and perhaps the most obvious, is the use of cliché. But which is worse: the unintended cliché, or the one deliberately used?
On Cliché and the Reader-Writer contract:
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Writing Advice: Plotting, Buddhism and Marrying Millionaires. Wade on in, the water's fine ...
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