Let's make a list of cliches, painful or otherwise.
I'll start.
>Opening by describing the weather
what is the point of this thread
>>8775933
This.
If you want complain threads, then make them about women, sexually active people, blacks, or reddit
>Once upon a time
>>8775960
flight from cliche is the biggest cliche, you fucking redditor
>>8775925
>A bunch of single word sentences in rapid succession
>some stupid bit of """"witty""""" dialogue
>a generic statement about the human condition
Pleb literary devices
>crosscutting
>dramatic irony
>anything metafictional
>untaggged dialogue
>archaisms
>asyndeton
>heterodox punctuation
>pastiche
>stream of consciousness
>rhyme
>meter
the list goes on
>loss of innocence
>>8777055
seriously, you should stop posting
>>8777055
So go on faggot
>plot
>setting
>characters
>dialogue
>punctuation
>words
>>8775960
could you shed some light as to why we're being invaded by /r/writing, kind friend?
(by "kind friend" I mean "seeing as you're one of them")
>>8775951
>and a very good time
When a post has no source cited despite consisting entirely of a quote.
>>8775925
tvtropes.org
Writing a book is pretty cliche
>>8775951
> Or maybe twice
>>8777386
>twice if you count god
>>8777355
Please, continue
>>8777392
kek
>shivers down my spine
>>8777392
>*boom* *boom* *CRASH*
>>8777392
Holy.... I want more....
>>8777392
10/10 narrative device
I'm sorry are we talking about cliches as in canned phrases, or cliches as in tropes?
Those are two entirely different things.
>>8777249
>it was there was a moocow
>>8775925
>using words to communicate ideas
wow
>>8777851
Five suspension points each, philistine!
>>8777862
>coming down along the road