Avoid Cliche's Like the Plague

This blog post, from Oddlands, a new e-zine, is subtitled "Stories We’ve Seen Too Often" and it is an editor's listing of the same old plots they tend to see in submissions of short fiction. I had to share this with the group, I was laughing out loud by number 5 ...

I think we've seen plotline #1 at the workshop ... I think I've actually written a book that depends heavily on #1 ... but then, I console myself, it's not necessarily the type of plot, but how well you carry it off, that determines whether a work can succeed.