Because I am over my word count for the day and then curiosity struck...

[nightsgift]

See here's the thing. We all know the cliché's of fantasy. Magic stones, unicorns, jewels. They're something that we all recognise as being cringeworthy. So then I decided to check out fictionpress and see just how many of these cliché's abound.

(These are all from the fantasy section alone by the way)

Crystals: 33 (Including one title spelled '

Comments

[sophonica]

Great idea. Try, um... "Sorceress", "Beautiful", "Curse", "Tragic". I'm tempted to say 'tresses', but that would probably be inside the narrative rather than the title, alas. I'll think of more.

Blargh vampires blargh. Just had to get that out.

[my_lil_icequeen]

No Sofi, not 'Vampire', it's 'Vampyre', lets try and keep up with the hip youngsters shall we?!!

*sigh* Charlie, your post almost makes me want to give up on my Man of a Thousand Battles and my heroine who is actually the daughter of a Goddess....