Friends who happen to fall in love stories make me want to vomit. I kid you not, I actually feel sick to my stomach when I open them in my browser lol
I also hate, hate, HATE..."girl goes to concert, meets *insert bsb name here*, that night they invite her on tour and they are forever in love" -- pipe dreams!
I'm tired of the stalker/kidnapping storyline but I feel that it definitely has room for innovation, and improvement. Just as long as there isn't a firey bus crash involved.
I try really hard to write outside the box, and not completely surround my fics with cliche. Obviously you're going to get a few because they wouldn't be cliche if people didn't use them, but the job is just to make it so people read it as your own, not as "same ole, same ole." It's okay to use cliches, as long as you make it your own. You can't always have a new plot -- in most cases it's impossible to have a brand new, never used before in the history of life fanfic plot.
But seriously, if there's a bus crash that leads ultimately to Nick falling in love with a forest ranger then being diagnosed with cancer caused by tanning bed exposure and too much sex then a week later he finds out some chick he slept with had his child... write something else.