: Re: Romance without cliche? My school is doing a romance writing competition and there is no cliche allowed. But that is the only way I know how to write romance. I mean, I haven't read a single

My suggestion would be, write the romance first, pick out as many phrases from it as you can, and search them up. If you receive many results, especially from excerpts or in a list of clichÃ©s, then it probably is a clichÃ©.

The definition of clichÃ© can be loose. One person may think it a clichÃ©, while another doesn't. Most metaphors and similes are considered clichÃ©s, so you may want to avoid them, unless you came up with them yourself and cannot find a search result for them.

A plot form can also be a clichÃ©. If you can't find an original plot idea, you are perfectly allowed to take a clichÃ©d one, then twist it. Reinventing can be just as fun as inventing.

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