Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-36143053-20180726220331/@comment-37719459-20190302135031

^^^^Thank you! That was amazing!

^^^I agree, those patterns do have to happen. But in this sense, this wouldn't be called cliche--it's called an archetype. These things pretty much have to happen in books to be exciting. After all, would you call the "hero's journey" a cliche, and then dislike everything that uses it? No. Archetypes are patterns in literature that, because of author's psychological pathways and whatnot, are almost always there.