What? What kinda crappy book did you find that line in? It doesn't make any sense. This is what "gorge" means according to the OED: CommanderEVE - you've probably never seen it because it doesn't make sense! And whoever wrote that needs a better editor
Reminds me of Scalzi's The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City. The first three paragraphs. Well, the whole story knows what this thread is about.
Her knees buckled under In spite of the humidity, he felt goosebumps or to that affect I don't mean to sound arrogant or condescending, but as creative writers don't we owe it to readers and ourselves to be more original? I'm guilty of my share. Believe me.
Sums it up perfectly. In regards to those confusing cliché with plot, that is what is referred to as tropes -- and are typical to genre. Some are indeed awful, some are expected. The following is a great link to tropes. Yes, it refers to TV, but equally viable to writing. You may have to scroll down, and look to the column on the far left. Enjoy. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
Using cliches is one thing, it's the repetition of them in the same work that bothers me. There's a popular YA writer who penned a series about teens who live for a very long time, know the one I mean. I must've counted a half dozen "he/she squinted" and "seriously?" and "What the fug?". That was just in one book of the series! Well, I said what I had to say on the subject. Have a wonderful Easter everybody. I'll probably do the usual and drink a whole bottle of Korbel.
