Yeah, I guess dropping by your house and expecting cakes and tea would be a bridge too far even for fan-craving me.
And yeah, listing the tropes always has felt backward to me. It's not that I want bedside confessions of undying love (for example)--it's that I have enjoyed stories in which there's an intensity of connection between the characters such that one of those would make sense ... and /but actually, you don't even need to put the beside confession in--do what you want! Surprise me!
I do enjoy the writing exercises that (for example) our friend Osprey Archer will do, where she'll write to a bunch of different prompts/tropes using her characters or doing fanfic for other books. They can be great treats. But I don't want a whole book like that unless there's something else/more going on as well. (For example I adored Enemies to Lovers, which does a whole bunch of tropes, but in part for laughs, in part to explore the whole **fact** of fanfiction and tropes, and equally or more important, so that two very real-feeling characters can get to know each other and argue and explore how they relate to fiction and storytelling, and what that means.
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Date: 2022-08-07 12:10 pm (UTC)And yeah, listing the tropes always has felt backward to me. It's not that I want bedside confessions of undying love (for example)--it's that I have enjoyed stories in which there's an intensity of connection between the characters such that one of those would make sense ... and /but actually, you don't even need to put the beside confession in--do what you want! Surprise me!
I do enjoy the writing exercises that (for example) our friend Osprey Archer will do, where she'll write to a bunch of different prompts/tropes using her characters or doing fanfic for other books. They can be great treats. But I don't want a whole book like that unless there's something else/more going on as well. (For example I adored Enemies to Lovers, which does a whole bunch of tropes, but in part for laughs, in part to explore the whole **fact** of fanfiction and tropes, and equally or more important, so that two very real-feeling characters can get to know each other and argue and explore how they relate to fiction and storytelling, and what that means.