Pushing Past the Cliché by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald
No writer wants to write a work riddled with clichés consciously, but how does one avoid them and stay true to the tropes of their genre to meet readers’ expectations? Bestselling Sci-fi author David Van Dyke, who has sold more than 400,000 copies of his novels, defines that the difference between a trope verse cliché: …