Welcome, welcome! Today, Kingdom Pen has another announcement! We shall be discussing the new theme of the month!
What new writing topic will Kingdom Pen be covering in February? Well, this month we will be learning about....
Clichés
Are they really that bad? What are some clichés to avoid? What do you do when your writing feels terribly bland and unoriginal?Â
All these questions will be answered this February! Some articles you can look forward to seeing are:
In the meantime, check out some other Kingdom Pen articles about clichés!
Also, be sure to let us know in the comments:
What are some clichés that you are tired of?
And,
What are some clichés and tropes that you actually really enjoy?
With that, take heart, stay courageous, and keep writing!
I honestly want to boycott the romance cliches. Come on, everyone, we’ve all read them. Insecure girl gets a perfect guy, they love each other, he ditches her for some other popular girl, she’s depressed, but then realizes she doesn’t need a guy to make her happy and goes off on her own little adventure.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Also, there is a very big spoiler alert about my book in this next bit so STOP READING RIGHT HERE if you don’t want it spoiled.
I’m looking forward to writing a non-cliche death scene as one of the characters in my first book dies in an avalanche. So I want to learn more about properly scripting that.
The one romance cliche that comes to mind that I don’t care for at all is the insecure-pale-and-professional girl who ends up with the imperfect-past-but-still-an-amazing-guy.
In ‘The 12 Romance Cliches to Boycott,’ I agreed with almost all except one. The cliche concerning teen love interests. Personally, I don’t think it’s a cliche because romance at any age has occurred a million times already. As long as they are able to truly understand that love really is in contrast to what the world tries to tell them; I think that if it really is a cliche, it’s a good one.
Other than that, I like cliche horse stories of the brave and heroic horse.
Like what Abigail and Grace talked about, I don’t like the romance cliche. Also, there’s this cliche with female characters where to prove that the girl is a strong character she can’t be a girly girl as well. I don’t like that cliche because I think that a girl can be a girly girl and still be the heroine of the story.