Okay so Manimatsu requested I try to help y'all fix the 'student waking up for school cliché'.

Honestly, this cliché is one of those clichés that could go either way depending on the plot of your story.

If your main character is a new student, as a reader I would expect that I would get some prior information to the character before we're just thrown into their first day of school without knowing a single thing about them. It could leave your reader lost and confused.

What you could do in this sort of situation if your main character is a new student, instead of blatantly pointing out that Minty Oreo (that's going to be the main character's name just so I don't have to keep saying character) is a new student, you can have them wake up and cause them to have this feeling of anxiety building up inside of Minty as they get ready BUT you wouldn't need to tell the audience Minty is a new student until they arrive to school. It's just a suggestion but I sure as hell know that on my first day of school at a new high school I wasn't just like;

"Oh yeah, cool, I'm a new student."

I was more of;

*internal screaming and anxiety*

If you want your Minty Oreo to really feel real, then write them like an actual person on the first day of school.

Now, if your Minty Oreo is a returning student we really don't need that whole entire introduction of Minty dragging themselves dreadfully out of their bed to sit down for like two hours applying make-up, doing their hair, selecting an outfit, oh god I am sighing just creating this list because honestly, no one wants to read that.

What you can try (you are not limited to this of course) something that makes the reader think about something that they wouldn't normally think about.

Here is an example from one of my stories so our Minty Oreo is going to temporarily be Lance;

"Have you ever sat down and watched the clouds drift by slowly across the sky? If you did, you're bound to see a few misshaped clouds that struggled to keep up with the rest; Lance liked watching those rare ones out of the dozens of clouds he would see every day. Those rarities reminded him of him, they were weird and different from their family in the sky they lived in, kind of like how he was weird and different from the other students at school."

You see, that was the first paragraph of my book and yet I didn't even mention his morning routine and (hopefully) I already have the reader hooked on the very first line that addresses an uncommon question. You wouldn't have guessed it but Lance is actually at school in a bathroom during this little bit.

Your Minty Oreo could be doing absolutely anything at their school in your first page BUT you have to make it really hook your reader. Rick Riordan's first installment of the Percy Jackson series really managed to grab the reader by the hand and just yank them into the world of half-bloods by making Percy, a not so very innocent kid, say something that really just caught your attention.

"Look I didn't want to be a half-blood."

Instead of going over the dreadfully boring task of explaining Percy's morning routine, Rick threw you right into the story and explained bits and pieces of Percy's school life while Percy went about his day.

I will usually always reference the Percy Jackson series for most of my 'how to fix your cliché' chapters because there are so many amazing examples from those stories.

This is my first writing tip book so I'm really sorry if I didn't explain this stuff all too well, tell me how to improve all my future chapters and I'll be sure to listen to you.

I really hope this helped everyone who happened to be curious about this sort of thing. Minty Oreo will return another day but until then, have an amazing day ❤

-Anri