[altworld]

Originally Posted by Penforhire

There are authors who consider good writing to be avoidance of cliche. Cat Valente writes an interesting rant in Charlie Stross' blog (and see part 2 as well!) -- http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...-a-numeri.html

That would depend on what style of book is being written, a good fun romp should lean on the odd cliche, and a good story with clever writing does from time to time refer to them. We are writing to entertain among other things.