/lit/ - Literature

>I'm sorry Ms Rowling. The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, you wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Your mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that you have no other style of writing.