What This Thread is for:

– talk about what you’re writing

– share what you’re writing, if you’re comfortable with that (and if you want or don’t want feedback, please indicate that also)

– talk about the writing process and what works and doesn’t work

– discuss things like characterization or plot issues you’re working through

– brainstorm ideas

– getting/giving positive feedback if solicited

What we’re not doing

-writing prompts

– any kind of shaming about topics or anything like that

Optional discussion Prompt: Traps

It’s easy to fall into cliches when writing, especially when writing a lot. We’ve all read books with too-long, boring sex scenes, ridiculously misogynistic descriptions of female characters and their body parts, overused phrases.

This article discusses 5 common writing cliches:

The Love Triangle

The Chosen One

The 2D Heroine

The Abusive or Absent Parents

First Person Narrator describing themselves while looking in a Mirror.

Do you do these things, or any others? Do you try to subvert them, or turn them upside down?

How’s it going?