help with ending, is this too cliche?

If they are just friends it's not cliche.

As long as you have several brilliant reasons for killing of the character. Don't just randomly kill him off because you think it would make a good scene or because you no longer like him. Killing him isnt cliche and if you write your book well you could create a really moving ending. If you do kill him just make sure you plan it in advance and maybe foreshadow it a little.

Hope this helps.

I agree. I think that it should turn into something more. OR she should find a love and her bestfriend (who never had that interest, just friends) finds himself jealous. Or the other way around. And then they finally fall in love with each other. Or something along those lines, but please no deaths- I personally hate it when ANY author kills off important characters(except for j.k. Rowling, she killed voldemort, Fred, lupin, tonks, Sirius, dumbledore, and much more but I continued on loving her cuz she kept Harry, Ron, and hermione alive- that was important or else I would have really been po. Lol. ) and that is why I hate most of shakespeare :) but anyway, please don't kill anyone off... Try to follow the jealousy route... And yeah. But you really don't have to do my advice. It's your story and you can take it litterally ANYWHERE you want. Good Luck!

i dont think it will be too cliched provided it isnt all happy emotional sad in the end like last words written with a joke kinda make it that the loss is felt but it doesnt need to be a tragedy it could be kinda bittersweet hope that helps.

Rather than bumping anyone off, a nice idea would be for the reader to make up what happened after you leave them so let them part and wander off by themselves.

'Cindy couldn't settle after that and the last I heard she was determined to fulfil her ambition by actually going to Italy. Jason sent her a few postcards but they dried up after a couple of years. Maybe another woman had entered his life.'

Well this's not so clich

but try somethig more

beyond this... some unwanted revelecion.

And the most important is the way you write in the midle of the book

The end is just he end.

A clich end is cool if your store is a coll store

XD

sorry but sounds a little bit boring if they are JUSt friends.. I'd really need to know more about the story to know if killing one off at the end is cliche.. I think it would be sad but idk a good sad.

Maybe one of them moves away and they don't see each other for years because they grow apart. And then the main character feels lonely, lost and that there life is going nowhere so she/he seeks out the home of their old friend to find from his/her family members that he/she committed suicide in the years they had lost contact. I think that would be interesting.

ok that sounds cool but i thought of a freaky book where she might accidently kill her bff (the boy) when they r 5 and then during her teenage yrs he haunts her but she is with him for all her life and then he leaves coz he saves her but he goes thro a nasty stage and is horrible so it is a horror thing. P.S he is called Jake

Why not have one of your characters walk away, wander off, disappear - without a detailed explanation?

Then, if your novel is published and successful you have the basis of a sequel.