Just a couple of examples of tropes:
Agatha Christie mystery tropes
Fantasy genre tropes
More tropes
More important than understanding the tropes in the kind of story you are telling can be the tropes you personally love and hate. Use the ones you love and find ways to turn the ones you hate upside down in unexpected ways.
For that matter, turn the ones you love upside down in unexpected ways.
As a dear friend once told me, clichés are clichés because they work. When they become annoying because they are used too much and cause a groan instead of a gasp of appreciation, that just makes the writing more fun and challenging.
Go for it!
Agatha Christie mystery tropes
Fantasy genre tropes
More tropes
More important than understanding the tropes in the kind of story you are telling can be the tropes you personally love and hate. Use the ones you love and find ways to turn the ones you hate upside down in unexpected ways.
For that matter, turn the ones you love upside down in unexpected ways.
As a dear friend once told me, clichés are clichés because they work. When they become annoying because they are used too much and cause a groan instead of a gasp of appreciation, that just makes the writing more fun and challenging.
Go for it!
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