- Your character looking at themselves in the mirror to describe their physical characteristics.
- Female characters who are overly concerned with breasts, makeup, or pouting.
- Beginning your story with the main character waking up.
- Pat the dog moments for your villain
- “Smart” women bumping into things or doing other socially clueless things
- Female characters being rescued by male characters, especially from physical danger
- Mothers who die giving birth to children or to save their children
- Characters with amnesia, which is often an excuse to write no backstory
- Characters who are perfect and move directly without mistakes to getting their goals.
- Villains with too much power
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