/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13229474]

Just calling someone's writing "cliche" is one of the most shallow criticisms of writing to exist. If you do this please reflect on how stupid you really are. Cliches are not always bad and the idea that they are always bad has infested many people who mistakenly believe that they can properly critique and have some semblance of intelligent thought. It's sad and most of all it's annoying, so please tell all your friends that cliches are not always bad because some washed-up English teacher used it once as a criticism.

[Anonymous No.13229479]

>>13229474
show me a good cliche in text
or show me an entire cliche text that's good
counting down from 100

[Anonymous No.13229480]

someone had a bad day in their creative writing class

[Anonymous No.13229490]

>>13229474
cliche means it's too boring to trash

[Anonymous No.13229494]

>>13229479
good guy beats the bad guy

[Anonymous No.13229516]

This is cliche: A small group of tables in one
corner of the spacious dining salon; a short row of re-
clining-chairs on the long vista of the promenade deck;
a pathetic little cluster of seats in the vast ballroom
when it was time for the movies— these were the sole
evidences of community life. Even the ship’s company
was little in evidence. Save for the few stewards and
deck-hands needed to look after us, tlie rest did not
appear. Now and then I would roam about for a long
time without seeing a soul. The effect was eery. It was
like being on a ghost ship, “Outward Bound” and
driven by unseen hands.

[Anonymous No.13229525]

what you gonna do when your tendency to resort to cliche runs wild on you, brother

[Anonymous No.13229534]

>track 7
https://youtu.be/E3Ib0gc8Mxg

[Anonymous No.13229542]

Your writing being cliche means that you are a writer assembling his work from other writers, not from his own genuine observation and experience. Chances are you're a dumb kid though, so it's all right. My advice is to listen closely to your teachers and your parents and do your best to internalize what they tell you, do your homework, go to bed early, etc etc.

One day you'll be enough of a clever young man to write something that doesn't sound like it was lifted straight from a mad libs genre pamphlet generator.

[Anonymous No.13229555]

>>13229480
kek
cliche is what you tell people when their writing is so bad you can't be bothered to critique it properly becuase it's a waste and an insult to your own intelligence

[Anonymous No.13229560]

>>13229542
>Doing your homework
CLICHÉ
>Going to bed
CLICHÉ
>Obeying your parents
THE CLICHÉ OF CLICHES

[Anonymous No.13229572]

>>13229555
>insult to your own intelligence
what a cliche phrase, get some original material anon

[Anonymous No.13229611]

c o d d l e d

[Anonymous No.13229633]

living is cliche man

[Anonymous No.13229650]

everything is a cliché, and everyone knows this. the reason people call specific things clichéd in particular is because their especially generic and boring

[Anonymous No.13229678]

>>13229474
>not self aware enough to realize that his argument is a cliche