Reading Response Week 10

Chapter 5 This chapter was helpful in avoiding using cliche words. In poetry we talked about being cliche with images and topics, but I never thought about being cliche with certain words in short stories. I realize that I use many of the words that she mentioned. For example, just and suddenly are overused. It is confusing when I write to be thinking about all of this stuff in my head and try to write the story. I think these tips are more for revision process than for when your writing the first draft.