Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35559858-20180513003457/@comment-35447404-20180513181056

The word cliché is french for mold (or mould). They are a writing tool and are actually easy to use, but as any idea that becomes widely popular and gets reused a lot will eventually get boring, tired, cliches become a sign of lazy writing. It is a lot easier to use a time tested mold then to come up with something new. The problem is that people like stories that break the mold and those are hard to write and take a lot of work.

Moral of the story: don't be lazy. Take your time to write. Research your topics. Be careful.

Care and polish is what makes a story truly shine.