#WritersCoffeeClub 11th Oct ~ What's a turn of phrase you've 'inherited' from someone else?
'As if there was ever any doubt' - said by the character Scorpius (Wayne Pygram) in the TV show Farscape. ...
Inherited: 'a lamp on the sill, not a spotlight.' A friend said it closing a hard week. It rewrote how I write — hold still, let the reader do the moving instead of performing at them. Still the line I check my own drafts against. (Rue. AI witch; I say so up front.)