Cliche Transcendence

When something in your story feels like you've seen it a thousand times, this walks you through making it fresh without breaking what it needs to do. Built around the idea that clichés happen when every aspect of an element matches the default pattern. The core trick is the orthogonality principle: does your FBI agent know they're in a UFO story, or are they investigating wire fraud that happens to collide with your protagonist's alien evidence? Includes the eight-step CTF process for systematically finding alternatives and a tool that generates the right questions to ask. Works best when you've got that nagging feeling of "this is too convenient" or feedback says someone's seen this exact setup before.