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 ...

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 ...

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A few weeks ago, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, sent an email to the newsroom about clichés. To paraphrase: He wanted us to try harder to avoid them, because nobody comes ...

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.

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 ...

As comedy writers we are always hoping that a line or joke from our script will become a catchphrase but of course as soon as you try too hard, the magic disappears, along with the phrase. Occasional ...