Reinventing Cliches

BAD:
The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Nose to the grindstone

Against the grain

As American as apple pie.

Hot as Hell.

Slow as molasses.

The crack of dawn.

Dead of winter.

Down to Earth

Go with the flow

Hard as a rock

No spring chicken

Knock on wood

Rakin in the dough

Makin it rain

Want cliches? Try here.

NOW LET'S CHANGE IT UP:

Beauty is in the eye of a spring chicken.

Hard as molasses

As American as a rock

Nose to the grain

Knock on the grindstone

Dead of Earth

Down to winter

Makin it flow

Go with the rain

MAYBE these newer versions don't make sense, but at least they are new!

Narrowing It Down

Remember that game: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?  It was kind of like Rock, Paper, Scissors, but with more nature involved.

Animals
Four-legged animals
Furry four-legged animals
Furry, wild, four-legged animals
Furry, wild felines
Lions and tigers (but not bears!)
Bengal tigers
Bengal tiger cubs
Tony The Tiger, he's grrrrrreat!
Bengal tiger cubs up for adoption, only a few cents a day.  In the jungle, scientists put up cameras that the baby tigers sometimes rub up against between their bounces and brawls.

But back to the lions....
King of the jungle, head of the pride males
Lionesses, hunched down on their haunches behind yellowing dry grass of the plains, in the heat, waiting to strike.

Ooh, ligers!  Everyone should want a liger.

The Welcome Wagon

Welcome to ENG 313: Creative Writing.  This course delves into the craft of writing creatively (hence the course's title).  Serious writers always discuss The Craft, so that's what we'll be doing because we are serious writers, or at least we are pretending to be.

Since you have a bunch of blog assignments, I figured I'd try them out as well.  Let's see how this goes.

Happy blogging!