Considering Story Tropes for Writers

[jacey]

Though this page is about telly tropes it's a great quiick guide for writers in terms of what to avoid. I shall now be more aware of when I'm 'delivering a Double Aesop.'

Well worth checking out.

Comments

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Still catching up on my LJ but ... gawd there's loads of these. How many have I done? Too many I suspect.

I've bookmarked the page for future shamefaced aghast-ness.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

It's almost as good as the Turkey City Lexicon for pulling you up short part-way through what you think is an original plot line.

http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html