2011-10-20, 06:33 PM
"Boy goes off on an adventure to distant lands" sounds so cliché. Have the protagonist stay home.
EDIT: Okay, seriously. What do you think people will care about when they read your story? How well you write or the fact that you used a (Southperrian's idea of a) cliché? A good read is 90% presentation and 10% element. Give us good descriptions and make us react to what you're constructing. Do you wanna know why Felix's thread was so popular? He's great at sequencing and creating suspense. Did he need to look through TVTropes for what to avoid? pineapple no. He just wrote.
Do us a favor and don't change anything about your story until you actually start writing it. If you later feel that something works against your flow, remove it.
EDIT: Okay, seriously. What do you think people will care about when they read your story? How well you write or the fact that you used a (Southperrian's idea of a) cliché? A good read is 90% presentation and 10% element. Give us good descriptions and make us react to what you're constructing. Do you wanna know why Felix's thread was so popular? He's great at sequencing and creating suspense. Did he need to look through TVTropes for what to avoid? pineapple no. He just wrote.
Do us a favor and don't change anything about your story until you actually start writing it. If you later feel that something works against your flow, remove it.