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Fanfic cliches
julilly:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 23, 2007, 09:55:14 PM ---Oh yeah, the eating disorder stories used to be big too!! That's one I don't think I've seen in awhile.
And yeah, I have used most of these cliches too. Even the ones I say I don't like LOL. I've done the best friends, the childhood best friends (slight difference there), the abused chick, the bus crash, the car crash, the plane crash, the cancer story, the kidnapping story, the stalker story, the Brian heart problems story (there's one no one has mentioned yet - though that one is not so popular anymore either), the love child after a one night stand, the drug abuse fic, the long lost fictional sibling (sort of - in reverse), the stranded on a deserted island fic (almost), the vampire fic, the ghost fic, the angel fic, the suicide attempt fic, the transplant fic, the sick child fic, the star-crossed lovers fic, the NSync-are-the-bad-guys fic, the girl group fic...
I am a walking cliche. :D
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*blink* Wow.
That just proves my earlier statement that it is virtually impossible to not use cliches, but they only become cliched when you use them improperly and don't give it your own flare.
julilly:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 23, 2007, 09:48:33 PM ---LMFAO at Julilly and Mare - cracking me up!!
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mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 23, 2007, 09:55:14 PM ---Oh yeah, the eating disorder stories used to be big too!! That's one I don't think I've seen in awhile.
And yeah, I have used most of these cliches too. Even the ones I say I don't like LOL. I've done the best friends, the childhood best friends (slight difference there), the abused chick, the bus crash, the car crash, the plane crash, the cancer story, the kidnapping story, the stalker story, the Brian heart problems story (there's one no one has mentioned yet - though that one is not so popular anymore either), the love child after a one night stand, the drug abuse fic, the long lost fictional sibling (sort of - in reverse), the stranded on a deserted island fic (almost), the vampire fic, the ghost fic, the angel fic, the suicide attempt fic, the transplant fic, the sick child fic, the star-crossed lovers fic, the NSync-are-the-bad-guys fic, the girl group fic...
I am a walking cliche. :D
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lmao whoa! And how can I forget the Brian heart problems story? I did the long lost sibling fic as well. I mean it was an AU, but still.
I have never written about an evil twin though!
julilly:
Just because I really want a 200th post before bedtime:
I'm now desperate to find good cliches in my fics (excluding shorts), so here goes lol I have the Brian a tough police detective, Nick as a sex trade worker, tailor, WWII vet, deranged juvenile detention centre prisoner, kidnapper with a kind heart, robot out to save the world from tyrrany, 19th century scholar, MS sufferer, and ghost solving his own mob murder...
So I have the sick angle, and the supernatural ghost angle covered, but it seems that all of my cliches lie in my short stories! I have lots of cliches in there! Depression, statuatory rape leading to illegitimate children -- the lot.
I gotta keep myself away from cliches, lol good thing my next fic is about bank robbers...I mean, I didn't tell you about that... *runs away*
mare:
LMAO now I want to do that too!
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