Anyways. Clichés. I'd like to think I'm actually not that harsh about them. I have a rule, if I know a story is a cliché I will not automatically toss it aside. I will give it a chance and then decide if I like it or not. Clichés are clichés for a reason. They've happened, they are happening and they will happen. They aren't going away any time soon. So might as well get used to it. I don't like people when they automatically state they hate clichés and begin insulting a writer's writing for it because if they're thinking like that then everything has already been told and written. Everything would be a cliché. Everything is a cliché by those standards.
I think it is okay to write stories with cliché elements as long as they're a new twist on old tales. Put some twists make it original, and memorable. That's my advice.
With that being said one of the main subplots in my story is the old best friends falling for each other. And from the very beginning I knew this was a clichéd idea so I instantly planned how I wanted to go about this and make it different. Make it my own. And I've come up with an endgoal that is quite the twist to the story so everything I do will lead to that and I will try to make it unique.
And I do enjoy some clichés simply because if we think about it, they are clichés for a reason. They're popular and well liked. Because the ideas are good.
With that being said I do hate when something because popular and then it's like its been fed steroids and suddenly everyone is writing and reading them. Harry Potter came out and suddenly everyone wanted to believe magic was real. Twilight hit and then everyone wanted sparkly vampires and werewolves who fall in love with babies. Hunger Games happened and now everyone's interested in the future of our world and just how we will all eliminate each other. It happens and while I don't mind the ones that started the craze I hate the craze that follows.
Like seriously? Can't we get over them and find other things to read?
You speak true words. :)
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