Disclaimer: This manifest reflects only Anna's reading and writing tastes as a character and does not reflect my own tastes as a writer; as such, any overlap with my own tastes as a writer is purely coincidental.
Nevertheless, if there's sufficient demand for me to expand on any specific item on the Manifest, I can always write an additional chapter on the item(s) requested.
Here's the Manifest of No's, in chronological order of entry:
Ch2:
- No alarm clock opening
- No bad boy
- No clique drama
- No love triangles
- No "not like the others"
- No abusive, negligent or dead parents
- No Mary Sues
- No cheap drama
- No tragic backstories
- No kidnappings
- No romanticizing abuse
- No mirror descriptions
- No Starbucks
Ch3:
- No random ninja attacks
- No random breaches of the fourth wall
- No teacher-student romance
- No chosen ones
- No damsels in distress
- No overly convoluted names
- No purely good or evil characters
Ch4:
- No opening with a move into a new town
- No opening at the beginning of a school year
- No using a work as an Author Tract
- No straw-manning
Ch5:
- No hoarding characterization
- No hoarding plot space
Ch6:
- No text talk unless it's made clear they're texting beforehand
Ch7:
- No fallacy-based debating
- No chronic overeating without the characters suffering in the long run
- No going cold turkey away from drugs
Ch8:
- No making fun of people's weight
- No romantic cheating
- No possessive partners or exes
Ch9:
- No gratuitous villainy
Ch10:
- No overstepping areas of expertise
Ch12:
- No using love as a cure
- No Stockholm or Lima Syndromes
- No gratuitous sex
- No unwanted pregnancies
Ch13:
- No straw-manning
Ch14:
- No waitressing romance
Ch15:
- No all-consuming romance
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Cliche Manifest
HumorAnna, a psychologist working with gifted youth and other high achievers, takes to writing indie literature since she was disillusioned with what she managed to read. She decides to enter NaNoWriMo for the first time in her life. But little did she k...
