by writerjaw | Jun 14, 2010 | Writing in General
Hello Everyone! Missed Friday again, but I was away. Cliches from June 7th: Clean As A Whistle – Thoroughly or neatly done, pure, unsoiled. William Carr wrote in The Dialect of Craven (1828) this phrase meaning “wholly” or “entirely”. ...
by writerjaw | Apr 24, 2010 | Writing in General
Hi Everyone! Hope all of you are busy writing and perfecting your craft. Last cliches: Cut and Dried–commonplace, routine. Term dates from the early 18th century, some disagreement to origin. Most believe came from timber, which is customarily cut to standard...
by writerjaw | Apr 2, 2010 | Writing in General
Hi everyone! Well, it was a busy week for me. Not only does the writers wokshop online keep me busy, but my mystery-novel in progress does. After being critiqued by the on-line group, I’ve made many changes and all for the good, I hope. My last post was on...
by writerjaw | Mar 26, 2010 | Writing in General
Well, I’m finding it’s not so easy to write about writing every single day. I’m too busy writing on my novels and working on the critiques in the writer’s workshop, not to mention regular every day living that happens. 3/23/10 Cliches: Did...
by writerjaw | Mar 23, 2010 | Writing in General
Well, I’m back. Did you find the last cliche? A Lost Cause: an undertaking doomed to fail. Early uses: from 1860s–New York Hearld July 2, 1868 referred to South’s civil war and in Essays in Criticism, 1865 description of Oxford Univ. as “the...
by writerjaw | Mar 19, 2010 | Writing in General
Do you use cliches? I don’t see how we could not since I have a book called The Facts on File of Dictionary of Cliches and in it is over 3,500 terms and expressions! Everyone points out the major cliches in our pieces, but I imagine from the book above, they...
