Write On This ... Exercise

Hang the cliché!

I do it all the time: I concentrate on vivid descriptions in my narrative in one area, only to note a conversational cliché has sneaked in somewhere else Clichés are not necessarily bad things; they are turns of phrase which once sparked vivid imagery through simile and metaphor, but, through overuse, have become a little tired and trite. This results is that they do not have the same potent effect as they did when we first heard them and they were fresh to our imaginations and consciousness. Your exercise for today depends heavily upon them:

Write

Make a list of ten popular and familiar chichéd expressions (soft as silk, slippery as an eel, etc.)

Look at the imagery in each and write a corresponding, newer, fresher, take on them. Like most things in life, to write original and innovative writing, you don't have to 'reinvent the wheel' (one of my fave clichés!)

eg., soft as whispered kisses, slippery as a lawyer etc. Now, I know you could do MUCH better

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