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624 Review + Trope and Beat Introduction

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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What Are Tropes?

A trope is a chunk of story sequence of beats. And those beats present a consistent micro strategy. So when we're looking at tropes, we'll look about ad we'llook at the micro strategies the protagonist is implementing in order to try to achieve their essential tactic. Will look at the order in which they try to use these microstrategies to find out about how they prioritise different stakes, different risks and different modes of action. And will also look at what the what the shifts are from the beginning to the end of the trope,. Because they do have those mackeral components, value shift. Nd that's going to give us some more information about the trope. What

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