What Not to Do With your Stories + Other Randomness

Random Rants

"Our lips crashed into each other"

So umm... we're witnessing a car crash now?

Sparks raced up my arms as his face grew closer to me

Call 9-1-1! Somebody's arm just caught on fire... oh wait, you mean not literally?

I stared into his orbs, begging him not to go. His orbs clouded over with empathy and his arms came forward to envelop me in a hug.

Last time I checked, mouths were doing all the speaking...

"Beep! Beep!"

Oh no! I was late for school!

Just please DON'T start your stories with an alarm clock beeping. 

I've been abused my whole life, my pack accused me of killing my parents and I just found out my mate is the alpha but he just rejected me and now I'm running away from the pack so that I can find some new hot guy to make the alpha jealous so he'll take me back--- blah blah blah

This is literally most of the Werewolf stories on Wattpad. I'm not saying ALL of them  are, but seriously? I know thinking of an original plot line is pretty difficult, but if you used the plot line and put a couple of twists in it, I bet it would be really cool. 

When a girl is molested/raped by someone and somehow she goes and falls in love with him.

If you want to write about something real, please make sure you research about the topic or is someone who has gone through whatever you're talking about. Stories about girls thinking suicidal thoughts and then being cured by some guy are very unrealistic, and sometimes stories about rape mention the girl falling in love with her rapist. People don't just go and embrace rape. in fact, rape is a crime that lives with people forever- they don't just forget about it.

When the M/C somehow escapes a car crash that killed her whole family.

I'm not saying it can't happen, but a lot of the car crashes in WP novels follow this.

When the school is doing the "baby project" and the M/C gets paired up with her crush. 

I mean, there's a chance she could have been paired with some other guy, right?

When the girl is on her period and somehow goes surfing and rides roller coasters and stuff. 

-.-

"Nope," he said, popping the "p".

"yup," I responded, popping the "p".

I just wanted to say that people don't actually talk like that... I mean, sometimes but not every second. 

When the girl chooses meat over the salad and the guy is fascinated. 

Excuse Me? Have you never seen a girl eat meat?

When the author mentions 'parents' at the beginning of the story but somehow the girl gets drunk every night (even though she's 16), disappears for days on end without notice, and ditches school every morning.