Fighting against the cliches...

[kowalski]

Is it just me or does anyone else find it really hard to write a story that doesn't feature any of the standard cliches....

I'm really struggling at the moment, nearly every thing I think of seems to have been done to death already.

Ohhh look here's another shy girl discovering she's really a crazed bdsm slut.

And here's a girl alone with her best friend.... I wonder if they're gonna discover 'feelings' they've never encountered before....

 

[jessy19]

I know what u mean about the cliches. It is tough to write a story about the usual cliches. Mine are usually involving the little sister letting her big brother be her first but that's just me.

I am trying to work on stories that don't have such cliches. Hopefully they will do well here *s*

Another cliche that gets me are the celebrity stories. they always have some pretty (female) actress or singer seducing some nervous young guy or doing lesbian things. I think there should be more celeb stories about celeb couples making love or male celebs getting it on for once. That'sjust my opinion of course. *s*

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Everything has been done before. Original ideas are few and far between simply because there are so many writers and so many stories. The trick is to make the story yours, build the characters and flow. Work out the plot line and basically write the story. Even an idea as overused as:

"Ignored housewife get's it on with best girlfreind"

Will become unique to you. As you build characters, add dialogue, explore feelings, sensations and themes the story becomes less and less a cookie cutter copy and more and more uniquely yours. Itonly stays cliche if you do nothing with it beyond the minimum to get the characters into the sack.

-Colly

 

[Lovepotion69]

Yep, hard to stay away from the cliche's, but like Colleen said; it's all been done before.

Personlly I find myself writing cliche's in the dialogue and wince. That's when I let the characters admit it's a cliche. haha

 

[kowalski]

Yup, all good points, still want to find something that's not been done to death though...

How about staid spinster starts a new job as an accountant, only to find the accountancy firm is just a cover up for a huge drug smuggling operation. she then gets contacted by the chief of police (who seduces her of course) and gets blackmailed into sleeping with the entire staff at the accountancy firm in order to get insider information....

and then she finds out they're all aliens and she's pregnant with an alien baby.

Who grows incredibly fast into a young virile stud who seduces his mother.

I don't think this story's been done yet.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Yup, all good points, still want to find something that's not been done to death though...

How about staid spinster starts a new job as an accountant, only to find the accountancy firm is just a cover up for a huge drug smuggling operation. she then gets contacted by the chief of police (who seduces her of course) and gets blackmailed into sleeping with the entire staff at the accountancy firm in order to get insider information....

and then she finds out they're all aliens and she's pregnant with an alien baby.

Who grows incredibly fast into a young virile stud who seduces his mother.

I don't think this story's been done yet.

ROFL,

Well, if your looking for something new and different I think yourmuse has spoken to you. How you intend to work that all into a story is beyond me, but best of luck, it will defintely be original!

-Colly

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think there should be more celeb stories about celeb couples making love or male celebs getting it on for once.

All Man Rickman

 

[Lovelynice]

Cliches tend to be cultural in origin, maybe to avoid the cliches you should try to create something in a very different situation. That way when the cliches turn-up, they aren't quite so easily recognizable, and sometimes you can create something entirely new from the mix.

 

[snooper]

Sage advice ...

... but from whom, I can't remember!

Avoid clichés like the plague.