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How To Avoid Clichés Like the Plague

February 3, 2022September 29, 2023 / Meredith Allard / Leave a comment

Photo by Debby Hudson for Unsplash Writing is Rarely Easy For someone who loves to write as much as I do, I find writing quite hard. I love that saying from Thomas Mann: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." After all, who else but a writer … Continue reading How To Avoid Clichés Like the Plague

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