Don't mind me plugging in my two cents about the whole clichés thing~ I'd say that in general a lot of stuff that's seen as overdone and such can be done well when it's written right. There's the whole thing with nothing being one-hundred percent original anymore, after all. Though I gotta admit that there's a couple things that make me roll my eyes, too.
There's those characters that have a really shitty past , or are on the run from someone, or, hell, both and still they just confide in the first person they meet. And by that I mean pretty much reciting their whole backstory to them, even if they'd have a good reason to be wary of strangers. Well...that and who does that in a casual conversation?
Well and in the time I've been writing, I've stumbled over writers that are just desperate to have a "badass" character more often than I even wanna count. Nothing wrong with having a strong and capable character, else me saying this would be very hyprocritical, but when half their description is pretty much "yeah, my character can beat up all of your characters" aaaaand the age old "they'll so kill yours when they get mad!" then it's just...cringeworthy.
At least it's mostly very young writers that step right into these pitfalls, I find. I had to grow out of my own 2edgy phase as well, so I know this too well.
There's those characters that have a really shitty past , or are on the run from someone, or, hell, both and still they just confide in the first person they meet. And by that I mean pretty much reciting their whole backstory to them, even if they'd have a good reason to be wary of strangers. Well...that and who does that in a casual conversation?
Well and in the time I've been writing, I've stumbled over writers that are just desperate to have a "badass" character more often than I even wanna count. Nothing wrong with having a strong and capable character, else me saying this would be very hyprocritical, but when half their description is pretty much "yeah, my character can beat up all of your characters" aaaaand the age old "they'll so kill yours when they get mad!" then it's just...cringeworthy.
At least it's mostly very young writers that step right into these pitfalls, I find. I had to grow out of my own 2edgy phase as well, so I know this too well.
