User blog comment:Resdraon/Stop/@comment-26268104-20170115003450/@comment-26268104-20170115135245

Well, here's the thing. The "crimson blood" cliche is a cliche because it is incredibly usuable. It's the color of blood and I don't think saying the color the blood is can be bad. That's like saying that describing ducks as yellow or crows as black is bad or cliche. Crimson is simply the color blood is. My question about that is, do you mean saying that it is crimson and only doing that, or making it one detail of the blood among many. Because I see your point if you mean when an author just says "I saw crimson blood." But I don't see the problem if "I saw crimson blood bleeding out of her from where he pulled the knife out, and wanted to run," passes as falling into this cliche.