frustration

[mmegaera]

You know, clichés are clichés for a reason. Because they work. And while words and sentences should be allowed to fall into that category, whole ideas shouldn't. There's probably five hundred ways for this story to start that aren't clichés, but absolutely none of them are jumping to my brain. Not when the supposedly clichéd beginning solves all the problems, gets what needs to be said said, and sets everything up for the rest of the story the way it needs to be set up.

But if I can't get anyone reading past the superficial label of "cliché," then none of the above matters. I have to change it, just because of that label. And it won't be as good when I do.

Who the hell said that starting a story with a journey had to be a cliché in the first place???