Tag: tropes

  • Romance Tropes: Find Your Favorite!

    So I’m finally done with revisions (let’s pretend this will really be the last time I’ll revise that WIP, okay?). And, I’m thinking about writing a new book. And thinking about tropes. Admittedly, I’m a tiny bit obsessed with them. Which is funny, because I don’t tend to write thinking about the common tropes. You…

  • Workshop Recap: Hooking Readers with High Concept

    So I’m behind in posting … again. This is becoming a bad habit.  This week, since I’m still not ready for the post on art journals (I know, more bad habits!), I thought I’d give you the highlights from another workshop I attended. This one was “The Happy Hooker: Hook the Reader with High Concept”…

  • Tropes: Love them, Loathe them

    Every genre has their tropes, and the sub-genres, too. I must confess that I wasn’t familiar with the term until recently, but I knew what it meant. Google and Wikipedia define it as: A literary trope is the use of figurative language. For example, the sitting United States administration might be referred to as “Washington”.…

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