Lecture ate cliches and overused words. cliches are by definition, not original. Everyone knows them. And readers will quickly become bored if they find too many in your prose. People are looking for new ways of reading things and saying things not to review well known phrases and sayings that already exist, and they know very well review your prose to search phrases and remove them finding original ways to express the same thing. This approach also has the advantage of developing your own writing style and will help you stand out from the crowd.

Readers tend to skim over cliches and they may even abandon the book if they find too many hits A lazy way for a writer to tell his story because you're not using your own voice or your own words. Here are some common cliches that we find in everyday speech, and that also creep into our prose. You'll find a complete list of these cliches under this in the PDF in the resource section. Once you find the cliche in your work, the sentence can be reworked and worded in another way by replacing it with another phrase or word. Let's see what I mean. In this sentence, at the end of the day, it's you who must decide we can rewrite this cliche at the end of the day.

In other words, We can simply replace it with one word, ultimately. Alternatively, is the phrase needed at all. Perhaps with a simple review, you can delete it. It's so small, for all intents and purposes, is hardly worth bothering with. Now, this sentence contains the cliche for all intents and purposes. Do we really need this phrase?

If we take it out? Does he keep its meaning? It's so small, is hardly worth bothering with. Yes, it does, so we can erase it. In this last example, the writer has used the cliche for all intents and purposes as a word filler to expand his word count. It's a lazy way to write And it doesn't improve the quality of the prose.

Actually, it's a barrier to clear expression. overused words. as writers, we develop our own styles. And we tend to favor some words over others. This is natural. We create sentences that often contain the same words used in different ways.

And if we're not careful, we can overuse these words. Even though we're not aware of this over usage, the reader is wants to read it becomes aware that you use a word too often, you'll begin to look for it. And this will distract him from the prose and from your story. So how do you find these overused words in a previous lecture, I talked about common words, such as, like, very, and really, but some of our word over usage is more subtle than this. One way to find them is to hire a beater reader who will read your manuscript and point out which words appear too often. Similar to cliches, overused words distract from the story.

You could also read through your work at the end of every session, or every week, and see if any words jump out at you is an example from some of my fiction. In the sentence, he smiled to see Elena walking down the stairs. I noticed that he smiled, which is a normal it's a good sentence. But after reading a few pages, I know Notice that smile appears quite often. I use the find feature in the word processor. And sure enough, it appears very frequently, too frequently.

So I have to replace it with another word. The words in this list are not only overused, but they're also unnecessary, giving two good reasons to delete them or replace them. In the next lecture, lecture nine, you will learn about interjections.