Advice to Take or Drop
Q: Which writing advice tropes do you follow, and which do you ignore in your books and short stories?
- from Susan
Trope: a word or expression used in a figurative sense : figure of speech. b : a common or overused theme or device : cliché the usual horror movie tropes.
Let’s go with b. Here are a few we hear often:
Write what you know.Show don’t tell.Something must happen on page one.If you introduce a gun in the first act, the gun must be fired in the third.In a mystery,...
- from Susan
Trope: a word or expression used in a figurative sense : figure of speech. b : a common or overused theme or device : cliché the usual horror movie tropes.
Let’s go with b. Here are a few we hear often:
Write what you know.Show don’t tell.Something must happen on page one.If you introduce a gun in the first act, the gun must be fired in the third.In a mystery,...
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