This is actually quite a big question, so I understand if you don't have time to answer it... In your opinion, what are the worst, most insidious tropes which fiction writers really need to stop using? And the most overlooked ones, which you wish people wo

Honestly? There’s no such thing as an overused trope. Tropes are tropes for a reason - they help us tell stories. That being said, I don’t like it when tropes are used just because they’re common, or easy - there still has to be some meaning behind what you’re doing. 

For example, the “new kid at school” trope. There’s a huge difference between taking a character and transplanting them in the middle of a new situation and that having some meaning to the plot and doing that just because it’s an easy way to start a story.