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• Seven Deadly Sins of Novel Writing, Part II

  
  The Bookshelf Muse — Authority: 120
  Sin # 2: Counterfeit CharactersThe most brilliant plot is nothing without the right characters. The writers job is to create unique, emotionally charged characters that are strong enough to drive the story. The characters we choose can make or break a novel, and a single misstep can turn a credible hero into a ...
  2 days ago

• Hat trick of evil

  
  headsup: the blog — Authority: 130
  Looks like Santa Cliche came early for the folks downtown. Packed into a mere two inches across the bottom of the front, we have: An "its official" (garnished with "butts out") An "its not easy being green" And a double dose of Christmas song titles! When you wring the institutional memory out of your newsroom, ...
  4 days ago

• Cobalt 300 High Speed Plate-Making, Cutting & Engraving Laser System from Inkcups Now Corporation

  
  Press Release Pad — Authority: 134
  Inkcups Now Corporation has introduced the Cobalt 300, an advanced plate-making, cutting and engraving laser system , equipped with the highest-speed servo-driven motor and the most user-friendly software on the market. The Cobalt 300 is a CO2 laser engraver geared for making high resolution Pad Printing Cliches ...
  4 days ago

• Jesus…An Aries?

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 436
  HEY GUYS, AM RE-POSTING THIS FROM APRIL AS IT IS A SEASONALLY APPROPRIATE DEBATE, NON? Yes, as someone pointed out a while bac k, having watched a doco + wanting to have a crack at Ariean fashion sense/sandals – many Christians consider April 6 to be the true birthday of Jesus. Whilst I’ve never gone with the ...
  4 days ago

• Most Overused Romantic Comedy Cliches Of The Decade

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 804
  Hollywoods current strategy for romantic comedies seems to consist of increasingly contorted plot-lines being mistaken for actual freshness. ( The Bounty Hunter , anyone?). Still, in the last decade, the genre found a lot of the same ways to be contrived. 1. Hardcore Career Woman Whose Heart Melts : Pity the ...
  5 days ago

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  Bildungblog — Authority: 154
  First there were memes. Then there were books about memes. Then there were guidebooks to the best books about memes. Then there were handbooks to the best guidebooks to the best books about memes. Then there were . . .
  6 days ago

• At the end of the day, youre not thinking outside the box - just talking in idiotic clichés

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  For a long time now I have been seething at the weird meaninglessness of modern jargon, writes Bryony Gordon.
  6 days ago

• Blue Sky Thinking?

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 135
  Thinking outside the box at the end of the day is not rocket science. Don’t shoot the messenger when I say this because I’m trying to give you the heads up about a survey of Britain’s most annoying cliches. Going forward from here, if we hit the ground running and don’t put all our eggs in one basket, by close ...
  1 week ago

• Nouveau cliche: “That’s why you have a man on the post”

  
  Off The Post — Authority: 557
  Twinned with: “That’s why you should have a man on the postThere is nothing like cutting tactical analysis and this is nothing like cutting tactical analysis. Every single time a player makes a goal-line clearance from a corner along comes the accompanying knee-jerk commentary line: “That’s why you have a man ...
  1 week ago

• Why are writers people that wad ruled paper?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  Whats the origin of the image of the frustrated writer? You know this character - crumpling his drafts into little balls and throwing them in the wastepaper basket, or staring endlessly at a blank page. What are some really early appearances of this image? If you dont know the exact origin, examples of it from film ...
  1 week ago

• The Cliché – The Killer in Logo Design

  
  Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative — Authority: 472
  I strive to avoid cliche meanings in logo designs especially with a subject/business/company that is likely to have cliches in abundance. Some areas that fall into this trap, of the top of my head are : barber shops, dating sites, photographers etc.
  1 week ago

• Roger Cohen does Japan

  
  Mutantfrog Travelogue — Authority: 421
  After working out with Yoko Ono’s lawyer and crossing the street outside the Imperial Palace, Roger Cohen is ready to tell us what he thinks of Japan: a sad place where the only way to have fun is develop unhealthy obsession with cartoons: My sense is that four factors have contributed to [over-the-top hobbyism ...
  1 week ago

• Nouveau cliche: “Indecision is final”

  
  Off The Post — Authority: 557
  Sick as a parrot and over the moon are now cliched football cliches. OTP’s new feature looks at modern day phrases that football could live withoutWe kick-off this new feature with an Alan Hansen special. The MOTD pundit has been rolling out his favourite ‘indecision is final’ line for years now. The first time ...
  1 week ago

• Tropes, symbols, and scenes written in three little words

  
  Observations — Authority: 115
  A recent discussion about visual illusion and symbolism made me think, of course, about the writing equivalent. (Love this illusion -- face or hands ? After watching a video at Polywog Fiberart about what we see is not actually what is there, I began to believe that the Matrix might be based upon a true ...
  1 week ago

• 21 Jump Street: "Dont Pet The Teacher"

  
  Tomato Nation — Authority: 123
  "Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 1 0! Its a Christmas miracle!Nighttime at a high school whose physical plant is modeled after the Taj Mahal. A synthesizer plinks disapprovingly as a mysterious hand pink-spray-paints the phrase "Weintraub bites the big one" in varying sizes in the principals office. As the mystery tagger ...
  1 week ago

• Word.

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 461
  In the spirt of both Fridays and ends-of-term, this: ( via Fallows , last summer.) (So I’m a little slow.) (Sue me.) The scariest thing about this short?  It proves what was long suspected: There is only one thriller in the universe; Michael Mann is a construct processing its variations.
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• Jingles bells, jingles bells… Must advertisers rework every holiday hymn into silly jingle?

  
  Gods of Advertising — Authority: 119
  Below are lyrics to a new holiday commercial for the Illinois Lottery from Chicago ad agency, Energy BBDO. They are sung to the music of Joy to the World. Joy to that guy/who took away your futon And the man who shampooed and conditioned your carpets And the lady who constructed/Your amazing cat tower ...
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• Indoors, outdoors, and in the doorway

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 135
  Although it’s loaded with funky characters and a shortage of capital letters, let’s focus our attention on just the cliche gone awry in this description from Yahoo! Shopping : You can use the EyeClops “indoors, outdoors and everywhere in between.” Where, exactly, is “in between”? Posted in ...
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• You know youre a Real Film Critic when you....

  
  Eyes Wired Open — Authority: 126
  Think Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have similar styles Call any instance of realism in film, tv or photography "gritty" Describe a slightly unconventional film as "cutting edge" Call Penelope Cruz Almodovars "muse" Greet every minor quirkfest by the Coen brothers as a timeless masterpiece of comic genius . ...
  1 week ago

• New Cliches of Photography #18

  
  Manchester Photography. — Authority: 427
  Girls & beds, messed & distressed.....
  1 week ago

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