How to Write a Book With a Variety of Tropes

No two of them kind of are the same, even though they have the same trope. And I think that's so important to call out to writers because I've talked to a couple of writers who have told me before, well, I have this idea for this book with this trope in it," she says. "I find that if a writer chooses one of each to start with at the kind of plotting stage, you can already kind of feel where the tension would lie"

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