Clichés

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Another Billie Jo lover! *falls in love with Die just because she mentioned Billie Jo*

The only problem I face with Billie Jo being so different is that I can't reuse the plotline.
I wanted to do something similar with the Panic! fandom and was like . . . I'd be ripping myself off.
However, it's quite easy to know if someone else is ripping you off.
Even worse than cliches are people that steal story ideas/stories.

Um, I use them sometimes, because I consider happy endings to be cliche sometimes, and I don't really like sad endings...

Other than that, I try to change it a little...and make it more interesting, by making the reader think one thing, and then in the next chapter throw something unexpected. I don't know if it really works, though.

I try and avoid clichés as much as possible. I can't say much about it now, cause i'm in a heep of stress as the resault of reasons I don't wish to discuss, but i'll add more later.

XoXo Hannah

What I think is really cliche is when everything magically works out in the end. I really hate things like that because life isn't like that. You'll be happy for a while and then it might all come crashing down. As Mr. Snicket says, that is the difference between the denoument of a story and the end.

I mean, a lot of people could argue with this and say that you read stories to lose track of reality. But I just find it hard to get into a story when it doesn't even have the faintest trace of realism.

why do you all have to write stories about gerard way and frank and blah blah?
i have the impression that this site is made 95% of emos O_o

Because they inspire us. I mean, they're not the only pairing I use but they're a pretty good and a pretty basic couple to work with. There's a lot of possibilities so a lot of people play around with them.

The worst cliche is the "my parents are dead" one. I find it way over used. I mean, you can have a tragedy happen to the character that doesn't involve abuse, death and whatever. ORIGINALITY PEOPLE.

And with abuse stories, I just hate when they are poorly written, it kinda just says to me: "Well, I haven't experienced it and I'm just writing it because everyone else does. Let's hope that readers cry." Its just a slap in the face to me.

Yeah. I really do hate that. We get the picture. People are abused and I might actually be moved if you tried t owrite it from a somewhat decent angle. Next.

What really bugs me in abuse stories is that this amazingly hot boy has coffee or something with the character and over the course of drinking coffee/making out in the car/ listening to CDs/ shoving a dead body into the Hudson River, the amazingly hot and kind boy finds out that this girl was raped/abused during her childhood and she was adopted a lot or something...

Seriously. Who tells a stranger their life story?

lyrical_muze:

Yeah. I really do hate that. We get the picture. People are abused and I might actually be moved if you tried t owrite it from a somewhat decent angle. Next.

What really bugs me in abuse stories is that this amazingly hot boy has coffee or something with the character and over the course of drinking coffee/making out in the car/ listening to CDs/ shoving a dead body into the Hudson River, the amazingly hot and kind boy finds out that this girl was raped/abused during her childhood and she was adopted a lot or something...

Seriously. Who tells a stranger their life story?

:lmfao
I did that in one of my stories, but only after the character was touchered for a very long period of time, so they both became known to each other. :shifty

I'm always trying to make the character less perfect. I see a lot of stories where the girl is a slim, c cup, pretty girl whose mother died in a car crash and whose father beats them. I got so annoyed at it one stage that I decidded to make one of my characters blind, just so that no one would catch on to it. "OMG, WHO WANTS THEIRE CHARACTER TO BE BLIND?!"

What story is that? Me needs to reeeead!

lyrical_muze:

What story is that? Me needs to reeeead!

Doooon't bother. :lol: Its writen badly. :shifty

I'm gonna write a blindfic soon. :D

I don't think I use too many cliches. Point Me Towards Tomorrow has the basic "girl meets guy, girl starts doing drug, girl gets screwed over" plot, but I think it was better than other band fanfiction here.

Elegie, I don't think, has many cliches in it, and my new oneshot has a few, but I think I twisted them. I'll wait until I post it for others to decide.

The thing about cliches is that they can be rather inspiring. You take one cliche plotline and think about what if something else happened. And you get something incredible and amazing. I can probably think of something (well, not something amazing) now, though I probably won't write it. It'll turn out different, I'll bet.

Right. Since me and Die hate the abuse cliche, let's go with that. Let's take a girl. Her name's...Isabel <3 and she's fifteen years old. And her life's not so perfect and basically sucks until a boy moves in next door. And his name is Frank Iero.

So Isabel has a crummy life, right? Why? Oh, its because...her daddy's a violent drunk and her mom is an emotional mess and has a smoking problem. When Frank meets Isabel, in all the cliche stories, Isabel spouts off her issues right away and gets tons of sympathy and has Frank wrapped around her little finger wooooot.

But what if we use a little common sense and she doesn't want to tell a stranger all her problems? So instead she hides it and acts normal. She flirts a little because you can't not flirt with Frank. I mean, your grandma would probably flirt with him. Hanyway, they flirt and get to talking. And because Isabel has so many problems that she has to hide, she starts to fabricate stuff. She pretends everything is handy-dandy. Let's go one step farther, she's a pathological liar. And she's been taught to pretend that her life's perfect. As a matter of fact, that's why her mother is an emotional mess.

As a matter of fact, they don't even live in a crap neighborhood like you'd expect. They live in the most wonderful purdy part of town. And Isabel's dad might be a violent drunk but he's one of the most respectable bankers in town. And Isabel and her mommy and daddy freak and spazz but pretend everything's a-okay. It destroys them all from the inside out, but they figure they'll manage. But then Frankie comes along and he's too nosy for his own good and "senses" something. Or at least that's the cliche. So let's eliminate that. Instead, Isabel just bottles it up until one day, he walks in and sees Isabel crying in her room. She says her dog just died (or invent another stupid reason.). Frank didn't know she even had a dog.

They start to go outside. They spot Isabel's mom with a full ashtray and teary face. Isabel grabs Frank and runs outside and makes him swear not to breathe a word about it. Frank tries to calm her down and says some families just have bad days and it happens all the time. Eventually, we find out through the course of the story that he's hiding a load of shit too and the two fell in love while trying to pretend their lives were perfect.

Let's go another step further. Everything in this story is gilded. The gilded age of America? The 50s. Set it in the 50s. Easy peasy pumkin pie motherfucker--every cliche can be turned into something different.

^^Sruti, you genius. :XD

And I just made a totally 'cliche' story. I just think I put a spin on it with the writing.

I absolutely hated "I'll Be Your Anything"...it was just so full of cliche`s...it was just the classic "girl runs away from an abusive home and meets a member of Green Day and they fall in love" cliche`. I just absolutely hated it....

And, if I may add a story that's so full of the "I'm so beautiful so everybody falls in love with me" cliche` that you DEFINITELY want to avoid, two words: "My Immortal". Do NOT read that under ANY circumstances...EVER.

Um...just a heads up...we're not really allowed to point fingers at certain stories. It can be interpeted as a hate comment and that's against the site rules.

I can't read any story that begins with someone waking up, or about cut themselves. To me, those are the two most used Mibba cliche's to be found. I can't stand it.

soranna:

why do you all have to write stories about gerard way and frank and blah blah?
i have the impression that this site is made 95% of emos O_o

Well, that was certainly an intelligent statement . . .