Top 10 cliches

hey
i'm an avid reader at ficitionpress.com. it completes my daily dietary requirement of a good stories and cheesy romances. but i'll tell you it gets damn hard to find an original story. Everything has to work with some basic cliches...romances won't be romances without them but once in a while you seriously feel like yelling, "NOT Again". So here is my list for the top 10 cliches

• The best friend cliche - One fine day two thus far untroubled best friends wake up to realise that "yikes i think i fell for my best friend". There are endless variations of this: the oblivious best friend who takes 19 chapters to clue in with the good looking gf/bf and the obligatory going out with best friend even though i like someone else but i don't want to hurt him/her. This cliche is invetable to happen and i've written it myself but i believe whover said "pyaar dosti hain" (love is friendship) ruined potentially great guy-girl friendships.
• The Love hate cliche - If handled right this one is good fun but most of the time there will be 5 chapters of hating each other and 10 chapters of making out. My paritiality is the unjustified fight and the silent love clauses. eg "When You Own the Universe" by Secretive and "Adversary Extrodinaire" by She's Insane
• The Girl in the all-boys school cliche - It was cool once, funny even with the near misses and the poor roomie wondering if he had become gay but then there were and onslaught of them after which one gets sick of them. my fav kind would have to be "False facades" by Maeven.
• The meeting after long seperation cliche - I seriously thought hindi movies had perfected it until i joined ficpress. Whether they meet again by absolute accident (rare) or just suddenly happen to go to the same school again or suddenly realise that the huge fight they had years ago was useless...its full drama involving a gazillion flashbacks and the little damning things they'll insist on remebering. I've seen it go horribly wrong enough times.
• The Annoymous Letter cliche - Proof that everything seems easier to tell when you are talking to a complete stranger. No matter why or how you started writing your life out on paper for some else to read, it is bound to get you and insightful and kind person on the other end. Irrespective of you hating the person in reality or 'in love' with someone else the hand that writes the letter rocks the world. My Fav - "Cynic's Creed" by Robin Davis.
• The step brother/sister cliche - Yes they are not biologically related so it is not techincally incest but jeez how many of them can u read without being slightly queasy and i'm yet to see a set of parents who won't mind that their son/daughter is dating their step son/daughter. "Reasons and romance" by Myrika is the best handling i've seen
• The nerd and the popular cliche - Earlier this used to be done involving a much needed make over of a low self esteemed secretly beuatiful girl but nowadays everyone in understatedly pretty and the guy just wakes up one day to discover her and shyness is often replaced with angst and depression.
• The School Play cliche - Ah yes, The invetiable kiss written in the script that causes people stuck in cliche 1 or 2 to realise their undying love for each other which incidentally matches the script they are reading...enough said
• The Sports cliche - The guy or girl or both obssessed with the basketball/baseball/football. It either leads to severe rivalry (Swish) or the coach-player associations (Daddy's Little Girl).
• The disabilty cliche - One of them is deformed, blind, deaf, going to die, suffers from depression, has awful family, an illeligtimate sibling/child . Take your pick and the other swoops in accepting everything and willing to help them out in anything. cute but overdone

That completes my list of cliches not that i'll ever say that these types shouldn't be wirrten but once in a while origianlity is much appreciated. I personally indulge in some of them at any given time but i prefer those which have more substance than just the cliche. In case I forgot any feel free to remind me which it was...

tnt ciao