Whats everyones thoughts on tropes. I love them. Depending on how the author puts them into the story. I find they benefit a story
Whats everyones thoughts on tropes. I love them. Depending on how the author puts them into the story. I find they benefit a story
There are a bunch of different types of tropes and I can’t imagine writing anything with a substantial length without using at least one type.
Tropes exist in every story without exception.
It’s cliches you want to avoid.
Some “tropes” are also cliches
Wrong. A trope is any character, plot, setting, device, or pattern that is recognizable in a story. They are not by default cliches. It’s how they are used in the story that is cliche or not. If they do nothing new or unpredictable with the trope then it is a cliche.
Didn’t say they’re by default cliche I said SOME tropes are cliches.
While not technically incorrect I think you’re missing the distinction. A cliche is always a trope. A trope is only a cliche if it is not being used in a new interesting way.
There is a trope of the chosen one from prophecy. There is a trope of beginning an adventure from an inn. There is a trope of the Knight fighting a dragon. There is a trope of having a bumbling fool in the party.
Any trope you name is just a trope. It’s not a cliche until someone throws it into a story and uses it poorly in a boring manner.
There are endless tropes. It’s a very individual thing. Each person have ones they love and ones they hate.
Gosh I hope readers like them. The fantasy series my husband and I are writing is full of them….well not full but there are a few.
The most common one is i just met u so now we will be together forever lol…
ha none of that in my books. I actually killed off my main man and then my main female character jilted the second man.
@Lori well, that should be an intersting read. If u ever need a beta reader send it my way lol…
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@Allison thanks for the offer
@Lori lol
I love when the trope is flipped on it’s head.
dear steve: this is a literacy group. please do not put an apostrophe in a possessive, “its.” the apostrophe means, “it is.” that off my chest, thank you to allison for teaching me a new word.
@Jesse dear Jesse, it’s called a cell phone with autocorrect. You missed grammar pedanting the period in the middle of the sentence too.
there is no period in the middle of my sentence. that’s a comma and it belongs there. back in the old days, when teachers actually taught readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic, a comma was required before anything in quotations. my personal grammar sin is my absolute refusal to use upper-case letters. love, jesse (58-year-old english major turned teacher, now retired).
i know you’re playing. do you know i’m playing?
@Jesse I did. I was referring to the period in the middle of my sentence.
Damn autocorrect doesn’t correct much.
that is the problem with illiterates programming cell phones…
@Jesse too true.
Love tropes. Make a page for my favorite books.
U made a page with them. Lol…
anyway, back to tropes.
Here’s a trope that drives me nuts.
The trope is that you have a person or group that has a rigid rule or set of rules that they won’t break even when it is the right thing to do. But then they break the rule anyway but pretend that it’s still a hard and fast rule that never gets broken.
Hmm icic Batman fan. But i think thats true never realized that. Ive noticed those alot in thrillers. Any fantasy that has that one
I’m having a hard time following you. (Autocorrect can be frustrating. I don’t blame you. Not sure what icic is.) Are you saying you’re not familiar with this trope in fantasy and asking for examples of it?
If that’s the case I consider batman to be a modern day fantasy along with all the DC and Marvel comic book films. It’s really common there. But you also have this as a pretty strong trope anywhere you have a lawful-good character in fantasy.