Enemy of the Bane
Dec. 26th, 2008 03:54 pmYou know sometimes a plot point becomes a cliche merely through over-use. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with it and there is no shame in using again sparingly especially in something written for a young audience who may well not have got to the stage of rolling their eyes and saying "I know how this one goes". Sometimes something is a cliche because it's a let out for lazy writing and you really need to be doing something special with it to make it work at all, even the first time someone encounters it.
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