Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35722173-20180530115120/@comment-5733573-20180605235357

The key is not to model your story after another story. If you set out with the intention of, "I'm going to write a story just like that!" then you're likely to run into the cliche problem. It's really easy to see which stories are modelled after others and which were concieved organically, but just happen to have some similarities to other well-known pastas.