How to avoid cliché story plots?

One of the most common errors beginning writers make is to rely on plot clichés. Clichés are frustrating because they’ve been hollowed out of their value through overuse. Take the common ‘chosen young man is destined to encounter a great evil’ plot type. This would be boring if the progression to the final conflict felt very linear. This is where subplots help you craft familiar source material into something distinctive and compelling. Take the same approach to combining different plot ideas and make sure that your novel’s central idea doesn’t simply follow a familiar path to an obvious conclusion. Aside from that, avoid endings such as all of the characters in your book live happily ever, with no hardships to bear. You’ll find the hero in this ending has defeated everyone and all of the plot twists you’ve worked so hard to write have been tied up nicely — but they’re also usually tied up very unrealistically and also the ending where main character waking up safe and sound in their bed, having realized that the entire plot up until that point has just been a dream. Create endings that would be true to life and realistic since in this way, the story would have more depth, thus a lot of people might hate it, but they can definitely relate to it.

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