plot
plät/
noun
plural noun: plots
2.
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
synonyms: storyline, story, scenario, action, thread; formal diegesis

cli·ché
klēˈSHā/
noun
plural noun: clichés
1.
A cliché or cliche (/ˈkliːʃeɪ/ or /klɪˈʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

There are too many plots that have been and is still being overused, to the point of where it's getting ridiculous and it's hard to find anything to read on here. So below are a few plots I'm sure we've have read or come across.

OVERUSED
URBAN FICTION
PLOTS
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BROKE DOWN, LOOKING UP
High school main female character is living a "horrible" life; her mother/father is a crackhead, she has to take care of her younger sibling(s), she's forced to work/steal for the house and her sibling(s), and she still manages to have a crush on the most popular teenage boy in school/well-known teenage kingpin, who has a vindictive, gold digging overt asshole ass girlfriend (and he acts as if he doesn't know she's like this and still stays with her cause he "loves" her)

One incident (don't matter what it is) the two meet, "Brokie" and "Kid Kingpin", and fall in love, and somewhere in the middle, he manages to take care of her (and her younger sibling(s)] in his house, and throughout the whole book, they deal with his ex, or "the bitch who might-as-well-be-his-girlfriend-since-she-solely-believes-her-and-kid-kingpin-are-still-in-a-relationship".

THE SAD LIFE OF A HIDEOUS, PLUS SIZE GIRL
High school plus-size female main character has a character description of the following:
5'2, 140 pounds, big breasts, big ass, wide hips, a little noticeable pouch, and hair that reaches the end of her back.

She is put out to be the ugliest thing on earth. Her momma/daddy/siblings beat her because she's fat and ugly, and they don't buy her anything, so she's dressed in rags all the time. When she goes to school, it's like World War I times 10 in that bitch.

Everybody in that whole school knows who she is, and they beat/tease her all day long, and not a single teacher/administrator/counselor/librarian/janitor/security guard/lunch lady peeps this shit. Somewhere and somehow the most popular boy/drug dealer/kingpin notices her or has been in love with her for the longest, and decides to approach her, but she can't handle it because she done spent all her life being put down, and her self-esteem is beyond non-existent, so the whole book is him trying to help her realize he wants her for more than what's between her legs.

*BONUS*
» When he finds out she gets the shit beat out her from everybody, and the nigga turn into the Incredible Hulk. «

MS. I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS & MR. #FEMALESDID911
Main female character is straight up independent; she makes her own money, pays all her bills, buys herself all the good flashy shit, drives her expensive ass Benz on the daily, but is bougie, hunty—BOO-G! She's drop dead gorgeous, and every nigga and they daddy want her. Her hood friends know she's bougie, niggas around the way knows she's bougie, and she flaunts on the fact that she's stuck-up.

Then one day, she meets a straight up Bompton Balifornia, don't-never-smile-ass nigga that dogs her ass out and makes her feel dumb cause she thought he was finna' sweat her, not knowing this nigga is on an anti-female kick, and plans on spending the rest of his life hating females because of his past (female family member hurt him/cheated on by ex). Now she's intrigued because this is the first time she's been dismissed, and she don't like that shit.

So for some reason, this nigga continues to bother her, insisting all he wants to do is fuck, and she continues to play hard to get until they go on one date, fuck, and realize they're in love. Then, they break-up because she realizes he's in the drug game but she dismisses it because he's got a 10-inch-dick, knows how to work it, and calls her "shawty"/"ma" every five seconds.

THE WEAK PUNCHING BAG & CAPTAIN DON'T SAVE HER, SHE DON'T WANNA' BE SAVED
Main female character is getting fucked up. It's not even an abusive relationship she's in—she's getting fucked up. This nigga breaks her legs, pours hot boiling water on her while she sleeps, kicks the teeth out her mouth, closes both her eyes shut, and in some moments, the sex is non-consensual, yet she still stays and she gives her family, friends, neighbors, employers, counselors—everybody, them same sorry ass excuses;

"I love him, and he loves me."

"It's my fault. I'm making him mad."

"He doesn't mean it."

"We've been together since we were eggs in our mother's ovaries. We have to make this work!"

And one day, she meets the ultimate nigga. Sexy, got all his teeth, he's not musty, he got his shit together, and for some reason he wants her. (something about the sad glint in her eyes). She has never experienced this type of compassion and positive attention, so she's clueless than a mothafucka', and we spend the rest of the book watching this nigga go back and forth with her ass—one minute she fucking with him, the next, she fucking with the nigga that done cracked her skull and dragged her down the stairs cause a spot on the eggs she cooked in the morning ain't have no salt on them.

HER: I HATE YOU! YOU SO STUPID!
HIM: YOU KNOW WHAT? I HATE YO' ASS TOO!
High school main female character hates high school main male character and vice versa. They can't stand each other, and everybody in the school knows and likes to watch these motherfuckas duke it out, cause these fuckas be fighting. Worldstar, "SHARKEISHA, NOO!" type fighting.

Then one day, (they either have to do a project together, they both got sentenced to detention for beating the shit out of each other, or they see something dealing with each of their home lives) and have a change of heart about each other.

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I'mma stop here, (I'll make a part two with more clichés because there's plenty more.)

Anyway, clichés are just murderers to story lines. In my opinion, they're tasteless, and it annoys me how many of them shits is on here. They are everywhere!
It's kind of easy to avoid clichés and similar plots; one way is to stop copying people's shit.

Simple.

I get it if you read a book, and you get a few ideas, and decide to create your own story off some ideas that you added expansion to, but to take the same plot, same characters, same dialogue, same location—same everything from a book, and try to call it your own is a no-go, and a lot of the "writers" on here don't even care if they take the same shit, as long as they got:

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They couldn't give two fucks.

Shit, some of these readers don't care either—some of 'em know how the book gone start, what's gone happen in between, and how it's gone end, and they still read it.
And that's fine; if you like knowing how a book starts and ends, then baby-boo, do you. This page here, is for the ones who can't stand them, like me, and the people trying to find some solutions and ways to avoid these catastrophes.

Another way to avoid the clichés is to transform a cliché into something new and original. Turn that bitch completely inside-out and work from there.

A poor girl tryna' get out of the hood?
Let's her make her dumb rich, and trying to give back to the community.

Drug dealer or kingpin for the main character?
Why can't he be a businessman instead? Ain't nothing wrong with a thug-persona in a suit! Let him own restaurants, car dealerships, real estates; without them being cover ups for his drug-dealing income.

A romance?
The characters don't always have to be in relationships or fall in love, and they don't have to have sex every second with everybody; let them niggas and bitches be single, and let 'em have cobwebs between they legs cause not everybody in the world is getting punani and beef-cake everyday.

Enemies/antagonists?
People don't always have to be the enemies/antagonists, the obstacle that stands between your character and their overall story goal could be any number of non-human manifestations.

Setting
Society
Financial Situations
Illness
The character (themselves)

It's a whole bunch of different routes you can go down besides letting the enemies/antagonists be a person. Please, let's try to be original and come up with shit you've or nobody else has ever heard of. Every story of mine goes off of one quote,

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
―Toni Morrison

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AUTHOR'S
NOTE

Y'all tell me how y'all feel about clichés, and these "already-been-read" ass books in the comment section.