Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-18145805-20130910000201/@comment-11773218-20130910004559

My best advice for cliches is to take a real life experience you've had and mix it up; for example, if you went to the zoo and saw a weird looking lion, you could have the story be about someone who went to the zoo and fell in a tigers cage, thought they would be out in a few minutes, but ended up being devoured by it, and maybe add a creepy saying. That also helps me to make it seem a little more realistic.