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The Trope Thesaurus

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Even a quick glance at popular books, movies, and streaming series says it all-- a skillful application of tropes sells stories. That's because tropes create a foundation between the audience and the action.

I'm not suggesting we slap a few tropes together, and call it done.

I'm talking about twisting tropes to create characters that fans can't stop thinking about to increase story conflict.

How do we do that?

By digging down into the functions of tropes.

But isn't a trope just a trope? What...