Right, a lot of authors (upcoming/published it doesn’t matter) struggle with making their story unique and less ‘common/overused’ so therefore I’m making this thread in an attempt to help those people with what to aim to avoid when writing/coding their story! Thread idea credits = @anon60802004 (:
Maf*a Stories =
Family
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The MC often has 2 brothers and/or 2 male cousins as well as a protective/absent father
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The MC often has an empathetic mother who tends to want grandbabies as soon as the MC finds a potential partner or the mother is the polar opposite having a careless/abandoning manner who couldn’t care less about the MC
Love Interests (LI) & Main Characters (MC)
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The MC/LI often have nicknames for each other (i.e = Little Sheep, Little Daisy, baby/babe, gorgeous, handsome etc…) Just use shortened versions of their name (i.e = Emma - Em/Emmy, Brooklyn - Brook/Lyn, Charlotte - Charlie/Lottie etc…)(Make sure that the MC/LI’s friends don’t shorten the name to that though)
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MC falls for someone in the maf*a (i.e = leader/second in commend)
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MC gets pregnant and for some reason the mafa LI believes she’s a rat/she ‘backstbbed’ him after some incident occurs. This often results in the LI wanting to kll the MC (Even though he doesn’t find out she’s pregnnt until either the last minute or not far off the last minute)
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LI is also over powering/toxic/cold/careless and has trust/anger issues
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The relationship between the MC & LI often includes a power imbalance
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The LI often gets angry for no reason
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The MC and LI tend to take their anger/frustration out on each other then end in a ‘good old’ argument
Maf*a
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MC/LI joins the maf*a and starts ‘getting their hands dirty’
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The MC/LI’s enemies attack at either the worst/the best moment (Meaning the MC/LI are either fully prepared or not prepared at all)
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The Maf*a is often Italian/Russian/American/British
High School/Career Romances =
Relationship
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Tends to go very quickly (Whirlwind Romance)
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Teacher & Student Romances
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Employer & Employee Romances
Love Interests (LI) & Main Characters (MC)
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A ‘bad boy’ LI & a ‘golden girl’ MC
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A ‘shy & timid’ MC with a ‘golden boy’ LI
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LI makes a bet with their mates with a deadline to ‘bed’/kiss the MC
Stories In General
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Toxic LIs
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Grammatical Errors!
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Animating Mistakes!
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Basic Directing (i.e = No zooms/No character spot placement etc…)
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Incorrect Representation
I’ll keep adding more to this thread as I remember them (:
Feel free to ask me to go into more detail about ANY of these points above (& any other tropes/clichés you’ve seen or heard of!
Thank you, @/Sydney_H for making sure I get the correct category & making sure that the content doesn’t break guidelines because of the maf*a related terms/content (:
I will add more details to the points mentioned & I will also add more things to avoid etc…soon (:
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