What The Fuck Was That Editor Smoking? The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator. Things To Remember If I Ever Become an Evil Overlord. Telescopic Text. 100 best first lines from novels. Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University: 1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) The Not-So-Grand List of Overused Fantasy Clichés. Like the Fantasy Novelists Exam and Grand list of overused science fiction clichés and The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches here is: The Not-So-Grand List of Overused Fantasy Clichés by Teresa Dietzinger (and contributors) “Inspired by John Van Sickle’s Grand list of Overused Science Fiction Clichés , which is a writer’s guide to ideas and plot devices in Science Fiction which might have been a good idea at one point but, to quote Van Sickle, “have become hackneyed from overuse by the unimaginative,” unquote.
I have sought to create a similar list for ideas and plot devices pertaining specifically to the Fantasy genre, (although I have decided I will not rate the cliches or try to categorize them. Word Perhect.