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Story Tropes: Building Blocks of Scenes

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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How to Build a Library of Tropes

The goal a for creating trope analysis is to find words that really allow you to think about the nature of the scene from all these different ctives. So we want to use some abstract terminology here. And as we name it, we don't want to say like sizing up his partner on the police force, because having a more abstract label on this trope is going to allow you to do more with it. We can look at, what do we actually do with these tropes? Well,  we say, i'm going to build a library of clichés and then fill them in over time.

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