Date:         Wed, 5 Nov 1997 07:40:15 -0500
From: Carol Cross <ccross@ALDUS.NORTHNET.ORG>
Subject:      EXERCISE:  who me? exercise

  OK you couch potatoes get up out of your chairs
        it's time to stalk the cliche!

        ONE..TWO...THREE....FOUR...more

        FIVE...SIX...SEVEN...EIGHT..

        (come on you can do it,  feel the burn!)


Last night it was raining and raining hard.
The words that came to mind immediately were:
" it was a dark and stormy night."

(No, MJ  I was not sitting on the roof.)

Drizzly,dark,damp dank,soggy,swollen....
all  descriptive of the eve.
 But
common words are cliche.

We as writers straddle the line between cliche and obscure.
We want to engage the reader without alienating her.

  (nice couplet eah?)

anyway the exercise I propose is  this:

Take a cliche:

        my love is a red red rose

        the robin-egg blue sky

        that dark and dreary night


or any other one you can think of..
and think of ten....(YES TEN...come on  you can do it  TEN MORE)
ways in  which to say the same thing
without using the tired old thought..


        should I post an example?

                probably

        will I?

                probably not


                        :-)

                        morning all
                        carol




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