Going Beyond The Cliché

Going beyond the cliché

Here is more great writing advice from Life, the Universe, and Everything. The theme of the presentation is Going beyond the cliche.

Within the plot: <Horror> using genre troupes: college kids go to a cabin in the woods and die. Run by a scientist. The team says don’t split up. Drugs in the system make them think differently and the split up.
When you present a story or a series, your readers are expecting a formula. Buffy: is a monster a week formula. May have a variety to be an original idea. Buffy TV show as a musical still follows formula by having a musical.
A remake of Much To Do About Nothing: pierce weeden. Josh weeden. The story opens with a nightstand as the beginning. The backstory changes the way we viewed the story.
horrible: tells the story as a musical. And he tells the story as a blog.
When you tell a story you want to involve the audience but you want to involve yourself. It can til reflect with the modern time that taps into both times. Or your unique perspective.
TV show, Angle, has some good examples of uniqueness YouTube has scenes to watch.
Readers that expect a formula you want to escalate the story and make it better.
Firefly: when our main characters want to arrange a return payment first guy rejects the refund. they kill him. Next guy accepts the refund
If you use a cliché use if for a reason. If our’ going to use a cliché; the make put a unique twist on it like a bad guy wears polish.
A good example of using a cliché is in the incredible. Villain says. You caught me monolog again.
You can have where a certain switch is expected to go and you have it go a different direction.
With each character, everyone has a secret. Another person has something they don’t want know but it could go back to the story.
You could flesh out their backstory to see why they’re motivated.]
Make them evolve into something.
Make stereotype characters be your own.
The more secrets you give your character. We get new secrets in every single book. People love a slow reveal. Some secrete can be fun.
Make sure your villains believe in what they are doing.
Make familiar character stereotype your own. Make characters just people.
Terry Pratchett: give a cliché a reason to be there. Heroes always let the villain escape. Provides job security. Villains have to hire dumb hirelings. Get higher rated by dumb followers. Check out the book: the last hero.
On Angel tv show, Harvengere is the guy who shares a warning. Harvenger is still on speakerphone.
Arms dealer: made him like a businessman: regular office factory is below. Pictures of a family on the desk. He offers candy to visitors. I only work with the head of your company.
There are YouTube videos of clichés.
Check out Tvtrpes.com.