The truth about clichés: Why the stigma against them isn't entirely fair Stock words and phrases often get used to death — but that isn't always the case ...

Search your inbox for the word “landscape.” Unless you enjoy discussing your gardening with coworkers, you’ll likely find an assortment of AI-generated newsletters and emails stuffed with lazy … The ...

Following ESPN's groan-inducing Jeremy Lin headline, we'd like like to point out a few more phrases headline writers might want to avoid, not only because they're vaguely racist but also because ...

Clichés represent a paradox: they are used by all speakers, and are familiar to everyone, yet they are never evaluated appreciatively or even neutrally: the very word cliché is encumbered with ...

If that seems harsh, think of how clichés harm writing, draw unwelcome attention, replace freshness with staleness and rob readers of the pleasure of original expressions that make writing memorable.

(Good idea.) Then it made a promise: “Moving forward, I will make a concerted effort to steer clear of cliches in my writing.” Even when I asked specifically for a high-school-graduation ...

Sara Cowley, a disabled playwright who lives in Mesquite, believes in writing nuanced human stories. For over a decade, she’s been using theater to bring her life experience to the stage in a ...

Artists have rarely wanted to correct the public on this point. This was especially true of writers in the middle of the twentieth century, laboring in the long interval between Prohibition—when ...

An article about comedy writing. All clichés are bad. Fact. Or is it? Writer and comedian Dave Cohen argues that for sitcom writers, clichés can be even better than sliced bread.