What are the most cliche ways of killing off your character in a novel?

1. Accidentally hit by a stray bullet during a bank robbery 2. Contracts a severe brain tumour, survives in perfect health for 2-6 weeks and then dies after weakening in hospital for 2 days 3.

Commits suicide in a fit of depression after a break-up 4. Tries to save the hero's life but dies by the same thing that was going to kill the hero 5. Stabbed in a mugging, ambulance fails to make it on time.

Here are the 7 most overused movie cliches.At some point all the directors in Hollywood got together and decided that having the heroes defuse a bomb with only one second left was just too trite and reductive. Now all bombs are defused with two seconds left. The good guys never just happen to stumble upon the monster sleeping or grooming itself or even finishing off the last victim it dispatched.

The monster is always right behind them at any given moment. The bad guys can fire at the massively outnumbered hero as many times as they want, but it's not going to do any good. Everything from a potato gun to a revolver to a sniper rifle misses completely, leaving, at most, a glancing shoulder wound.As soon as you hear the first chords of an inspiring pop song, you know what you're in for.

The team starts out a bunch of uncoordinated schlubs, but by the end of a three-minute montage they're confident, competent and ready to handle any task that comes their way. The heroine is pointing her gun at the villain's head.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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