UPDATE! Our winners!
It's the start of a new month, which means it time for July's Fan Fiction Contest!
We all now that we should avoid cliché phrases and imagery in our writing. Clichés make writing boring and predictable. Our job as writers is to hold the readers' interests. Clichés fail at that; we've heard them before, seen them written dozens of times, if not more. For intriguing writing, we must find unique, fresh ways to phrase what we wish to say.
For this contest, I am providing a list of common clichés that should be avoided like the plague (did you see what I did there?). Pick at least one cliché from th