Skip to primary navigation
Skip to main content

Home
About
Bookstore
Blog
Software
Workshops
Resources

Search this website

WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®

Helping writers become bestselling authors

Cliches

How to Avoid Flat Characters in Your Story

How to Strengthen Our Story with Tropes

How to Avoid Clichéd Emotional Reactions

Improve Your Storytelling in 5 Minutes

Introducing…The Character Type & Trope Thesaurus!

Writing Antagonists Readers Can’t Help But Like

How Much Do I Need To Describe My Character’s Appearance?

3 Mistakes To Avoid with Your Side Characters

Nods, Smiles, and Frowns: How Can We Avoid “Talking Heads”…and Cliches?

How to Write Emotion Well: Know Your Character

11 Techniques for Transforming Clichéd Phrasings

Story Tropes: To Avoid or Not to Avoid?

Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Go to Next Page »

NO AI TRAINING: Any use of this content to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The legal copyright holder, Writers Helping Writers®, reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models. WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® · Copyright © 2025 · WEBSITE DESIGN BY LAUGH EAT LEARN