Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what SJP said in “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, but if you know what I’m talking about then you know that it’s more about how she said it and that what she was saying was: dude, that dance move is so played.
So I’m talking about cliches. God do I have reader fatigue. And it’s not fair because I love to read. Now I understand that “we’re in the middle of a like totally wasted decade; all the great themes have been used up, turned into theme parks…” Actually, that was last decade, wasn’t it?
Anyway, make it new!
Do not, under any circumstances, think that it’s ok to take a played plot from one genre and plunk it down into another with barely anything changed. It’s just not.
On a related topic–related to what I spent 3 hours reading today before just plain giving up–
Food fights and throwing each other into creeks is not conflict.
Middles full of fluffy scenes like that are so not what I want to read, and when the blurb promises that the book is going to be about something, it’s just all the more annoying. Marshmallow filling in the middle is for Twinkies, not for novels.
But then, maybe some people are into that. I don’t know. Or maybe, like me, they just keep reading anything in search of something good, and just anything keeps getting published with the knowledge that people like us just keep reading.
/rant.
