The Vague, the Cliché, and the Precious

I was recently talking to a scholar about teaching creative writing, and I realized there are a few things that I think of as common knowledge, but they are decidedly not! So I figured I would talk about some of those things here. I want to start with the three most common things that I was confronted with in introductory creative writing classrooms: the Vague, the Cliché, and the Precious. (I’m…