# I Am Cliché **URL:** \ **Category:** Writer's Block\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270 "2010-03-12T14:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wreybies)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/1 "2010-03-12T14:06:38Z")
So… At one of my other forums, a thread that seems to be getting some play sings to the tune of, “I need help naming one of my characters. He’s a were-elf, and it was his dad who is an elf who raised him so that’s where the name would have come from. He’s an important character, so his name has to be good. I have just introduced him to the other characters who attend a magicking school. HELP!” The only response that comes to mind, which I have of course not written is, “Let me guess what your three favorite movie franchises are…” Wrey ---
**Author:** ![PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/PJS)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/2 "2010-03-12T17:29:23Z")
> [@Wreybies](#): > > which I have of course not written Why not? ps ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Coffee](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Sean\_Coffee](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Sean_Coffee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/3 "2010-03-12T19:18:56Z")
> [@PJS](#): > > > [@Wreybies](#): > > > > which I have of course not written > > Why not? > > ps Which brings up a question: would responding in that manner be trolling, or would it be conversation? I ask because I don’t always know where the line is when responding to (and reading the responses of) others. ---
**Author:** ![PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/PJS)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/4 "2010-03-12T19:46:02Z")
> [@Sean Coffee](#): > > Which brings up a question… I agree. My question was intended literally, not rhetorically. What was the reason for not responding thus? Does W know the originator would be insulted, or that the forum would be unsettled? I ought perhaps to have emphasized the > [@Wreybies](#): > > of course ps ---
**Author:** ![Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wreybies)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/5 "2010-03-12T20:40:25Z")
Perhaps I should have prefaced by saying that the average age of the members at the forum in question is rather young. Rather. A response like that would not be acceptable at the forum as the egos are still as fragile as the shell of a paper nautilus. What a thread like that (and there are many) at my other forum does bring into focus is the effect that visual media seems to have on the writer these days. The young writer, that is. There are many, many, many, many, (did I happen to mention many?) stories that are posted at that forum which are written in the first person, present tense. As you stroll through the stories, looking for something for which to give a review, you can see the mark left on an entire generation by POV video games. ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/6 "2010-03-13T16:46:21Z")
So Hemingway was wrong to write in first person present? Is FPP a sure sign of inferior writing? Or just a sign of video game corruption? ---
**Author:** ![Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wreybies)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/7 "2010-03-14T20:33:28Z")
No wrong. No right. Just an observation of a trend that seems to be more than statistically probable. ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/8 "2010-03-14T21:02:00Z")
A belated happy 40th Birthday, Wrey. 😃 ![images-1.jpeg](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/92b3dc50a57d9ea7b23add9ea400212089052651.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Wreybies](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wreybies)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/i-am-cliche/7270/9 "2010-03-18T00:27:24Z")
> [@vic-k](#): > > A belated happy 40th Birthday, Wrey. 😃 Ha! 😃 Thank you.