How do you avoid cliches in fiction?

10 Tips to Avoid Clichés in Writing

1. Avoid Stolen or Borrowed Tales.
2. Resist The Lure of the Sensational.
3. Turn a Stereotype on its Head.
4. Tell the Story Only You Can Tell.
5. Keep it Real by Taking it Slow.
6. Deliver Your Story From Circumstantial Cliché
7. Elevate the Ordinary.
8. Rescue Gratuitous Scenes From Melodramatic Action.

How do I make my character mess up?

Here’s how to make your characters suffer using interesting conflict. As writers, we’re all guilty of putting our characters through hell….Fun Ways to Make Your Characters Suffer

1. Create an adversary.
2. Bring up the past.
3. Make them choose between 2 bad situations.
4. Make them face their fears.
5. Challenge their worldview.

What is wrong with clichés?

Using clichés is like using someone else’s melody in your music or thinking someone else’s thoughts—their melody would be discordant inside yours; their thoughts wouldn’t help you get through your day. Not only don’t clichés add to your writing, they can weaken it.

What are clichés in poetry?

A cliché (pronounced ‘klee-SHAY’) is a saying, image, or idea which has been used so much that it sounds terribly uncreative. Using clichés is considered bad writing and speaking because they make it sound like you didn’t put any thought into your words.

What are character clichés?

These are some common clichés to avoid in writing characters:

• Damsel in Distress: The character who needs someone to save them.
• Boy/Girl Next Door: The nice, boring, average, unobtrusive side character.
• Bad Boy: The character who’s hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
• Femme Fatale: The attractive, lethal lady.

Are all clichés bad?

There’s nothing inherently bad about cliches. They’re just tropes that have been heavily overused to the point that you might want to avoid them. Tropes in general are unavoidable. There’s no such thing as an inherently bad trope.

What prevented the main character in getting what he or she wanted?

Antagonists
Antagonists often are known as the bad guy in fiction. They attempt to prevent protagonists from getting what they want or need. An antagonist also should be a round character. Making an antagonist evil is not as interesting as making the character conflicted.