Tag: tropes
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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”…
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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”.…