Today while working with two other people creatively, one of us said something that was rude. It was a cliche, an unconscious thing, the likes of which we overstate. Thoughtless. I’ve said it before. It wasn’t an evil act, but in that time, it was rude and it was bad. One of us pointed that out; we considered it; and we struck it from our work.
Then, the person who said it came up with an alternative – and it was fucking funny.
It’s a tiny little thing, and I don’t imagine this is a powerful lesson or anything, but I’m seeing this in my own work: in some cases, avoiding hurtful cliches forces you to think around a restriction, around a limitation or a boundary that can be so good for creativity in your dialogue.
Anyway, just a little thing I noticed.