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Ep 37 - Top Tropes in Romance Writing with Aimee Walker

Romancing the Story: Writing Romance, Storytelling, and Book Structure

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Top Trops, a Romance Writers' Guide

Top Trops is a romance writers guide. It rates contemporary romance tropes in different categories like tension, banter, controversy and believability. The premise of the book comes from an old card game called Top Trumps. When you ask readers what their favourite trope is they'd say something like only one bed - so that made it easy to filter off all those little kind of trope within a trope.

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