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Using Tropes To Strengthen Your Fiction With Jennifer Hilt

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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Is That a Horror Trope?

McGuffin is really the, McGuffin is like the classic object of what a thing that you're looking for. It can be anything that kind of helps move the story along in that way. I guess for me it's think, well, and that this is the type of thing I write, which is sort of a cursed book. There always seems to be a thing, like in midnight mass when they pull in, we don't even know who it is, or they pull in that giant trunk.

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