Colloquialisms, usage of...

Jamesaritchie said:

Euphemisms, dysphemisms, or metaphors, most are pure cliche, and too many of them will make the writing unreadable. If you think readers reject cliches quickly, look at it from an editor's standpoint. A cliche is a cliche because it's overused, and for each time a reader sees one, an editor probably sees that same one a thousand times.

Calling them Euphemisms, dysphemisms, metaphors, or cooloquialisms doesn't help. To an editor, anything he's seen a thousand times is a cliche. The surest way to kill any chance your story has with an editor is to fill it with cliches, no matter what lebel the cliche wears.

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Jamesaritchie said:

Euphemisms, dysphemisms, or metaphors, most are pure cliche....

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