Consider This: Love Cliches
How do you know if the central relationship in your manuscript is cliched? Watch The Cougar on TVLand. If you recognize anything on there as something your characters might say…DO BETTUH!
Because it gets exhausting having what you love to do being brushed off as a 'thing' or a 'phase', this is a catalog of all of the things that make writing so amazing and make me wanna keep going. Whether I 'make it' or not.