^ This, for sure.
If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t read it, not because it has too many cliches, but because they’re not the cliches I like lol. I absolutely melt for some cliches, but not others.
There are some (like me lmao) who will harp on cliches, but there are also plenty who will read them. We talk about originality, but if that was all it took to write a good story, I might have more than 36 reads.
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Basically, what I’m trying to say is that there’s a difference between a cliche and a copy. You can use a bunch of cliches as long as there’s still something in it to set it apart from the others, something that makes yours worth reading. ![]()