There are better words out there.... trust me

How many times have you run across a sentence that looks like this?

"His crimson cloak flared behind him as he walked."

Ugh. I can't stand the word "crimson" to describe anything. You may as yourself, Why? Thats a great COOL word!

No. No it isn't. In fact, I believe it is one of the most overused descriptive word for "red" ever in the history of writing. There are others but I think "crimson" is number one on my list.

There are other words out there. Trust me. All you have to do is open up (or Google) the magical tool known as the Thesaurus. Just look at all the other fancy words I found for the color Red!

red, blowzed, blowzy, blushing, brick, buff, burnt, carroty, cerise, cherry, coral, crimson, erubescent, ferruginous, flame, flammulated, flesh, foxy, gules, hot, hot pink, incarnadin, incarnadine, latericeous, lateritious, lurid, magenta, maroon, murrey, phenicious, poppy, puniceous, red as a lobster, red as a turkey, red as fire, red as scarlet, reddened, reddish, roon, rose, roseate, rubedinous, rubescent, rubicund, rubiginous, ruby, rufous, russet, rutilant, salmon, shell, sorrel, stammel, vinaceous, warm

This I found on the very handy, Thesaurus.com. This is also only a small section (the second one in fact) of all the different synonyms for red! You can do other colors or really just about any other word you fancy! So please, save a cliche adjective and adopt a new one. Your readers (especially me) will thank you.