Look at all the fiction novels that have been published. It's said (and I don't know for a fact) that there are approximately 21 original plots. Everything written after that are 're-telling' of those plots through another person's point of view.
That's a thing I find terribly sad. It is *very* easy nowadays to call an author "to be unoriginal", and that's like a whip in the face to me.
I'm since last year developing my own fantasy universe (from which some friuts you can see in the story "The Adorant" in this board), and I try to keep away from any clichés. That is, however, extremely difficult, nowadays.
I which there was more than 21 plots, but I simply cannot say. It would be better for creativity, I think.
