HELP! I'm Drowning In Cliches: How to Avoid Cliches on Wattpad in Your Stories
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Last published Sat, Jan 10, 2015
Are you tired of the old playboy/nerd girl or good girl/badboy romances?
Frustrated at all the girl rejected by her mate-but turns out to be a white wolf-which is special and powerful-then falls in love with her ex-mate-even after dating a nice guy for years-stories?
Emotionally drained by all the weak girls who let men control every. single. thing. in. their. lives. including. eating. and. sleeping?
Ready to destroy this site because of the overabundance of the One Direction fanfics?
Then look no further to HELP! I'm Drowning in Cliches!
After four years of immersive research, study, and interaction I have compiled a list of many of the cliches many of the talented writes of this site have fallen into and how to get around them or even somehow incorporate them into your story while still making it original, entertaining, and not deletion worthy.
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"Your no mate of mine! You're weak and not worthy of being the Luna." He shouts, but I didn't filinch once. "I, Alex, future Alpha of the DragonFire pack, reject you Violet as my mate and Luna." "You will regrect rejecting me, Alex, mark my words." And then I ran. --------------------- Violet was a Omega. The lowest rank in a pack, a Omega, having one in the pack was pitiful they brought dissapointment and disrespect to the pack. So with out parents or friends Violet was bullied and treated like a slave for the pack, and her mate rejected her. Too bad they didn't know how strong and powerful she is. What will happen when she is called to help her old pack, but people from her past come back. Will she accept Alex or will she reject him back and be with another. --------------------- Hey guys! Hope you like this book if you read it! Please remember to comment. It honestly does help me a lot, it keeps me motivated. Also I try and update every weekend, but of course I do have a life outside of YouTube, and I do get writer's block sometimes. Please don't steal my characters, they belong to me, also any relations between the characters in this book to the real world are purely coincidental.
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