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Writing Tips: Stop Beating Cliches to Death

January 8, 2013 by Lori Devoti 1 Comment
writing tips avoiding cliches

One of the writing tips you’ve most likely heard is probably to avoid clichés. This writing tip is so widely shared that it has almost become a cliché itself. So you know that clichés in creative writing should be avoided like the plague. But so often a cliché is the first thing at the tip of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Metaphors, Writing Craft, Writing Tips Tagged: cliches, description, metaphors, similies

Writing Description for Today’s Readers

October 25, 2010 by Kathy Steffen 4 Comments
writing description

Today’s reader craves more than a great read; they want to experience something they haven’t before. And that something had better be fresh, unusual and exciting. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, excellent description draws the reader into your world. Only one thing to do: become a master at writing description. Unless it’s your first … [Read more…]

Posted in: Description, Writing Craft Tagged: description

Sense of Smell in Writing

October 20, 2010 by Alex Bledsoe 4 Comments
using the sense of smell in writing

Writers talk a lot about using the five senses. But how much thought have you given specifically to the sense of smell in writing? Not just for description but developing character and worldbuilding and… I once read an interview with director Ridley Scott, whose second film–a little number called Alien had just been released.  In … [Read more…]

Posted in: Description, Worldbuilding, Writing Craft Tagged: description, five senses, sense of smell

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