I was taking to heart George’s notion of “escalating feud” as a trope. It seems to me that if that scenario can be considered a trope, then so can just about any scenario if written in a stereotypic way. I’ve always thought of a trope as relating to character, but the definition George posted includes scenarios. I simply pulled them back…
I was taking to heart George’s notion of “escalating feud” as a trope. It seems to me that if that scenario can be considered a trope, then so can just about any scenario if written in a stereotypic way. I’ve always thought of a trope as relating to character, but the definition George posted includes scenarios. I simply pulled them back further to their core. My point being that poor writing is poor writing. Take any scenario and make it sing. Better, though, to start from a different jumping off point and grow outward.
I guess so, but who wants to read poor writing, so any story that leaves it's whole at that lesser extent will evaporate. The scenarios within or as a whole work, that appear tropish will, under an expert hand, morph into better writing that may honor the whispering archetype.
Yes to jumping in the deep end where tropes are yet to swim!
I was taking to heart George’s notion of “escalating feud” as a trope. It seems to me that if that scenario can be considered a trope, then so can just about any scenario if written in a stereotypic way. I’ve always thought of a trope as relating to character, but the definition George posted includes scenarios. I simply pulled them back further to their core. My point being that poor writing is poor writing. Take any scenario and make it sing. Better, though, to start from a different jumping off point and grow outward.
I guess so, but who wants to read poor writing, so any story that leaves it's whole at that lesser extent will evaporate. The scenarios within or as a whole work, that appear tropish will, under an expert hand, morph into better writing that may honor the whispering archetype.
Yes to jumping in the deep end where tropes are yet to swim!
Absolutely. You articulated this better than I did. But this is what I meant. Thank you.
Always a bit nervous when I knock out a post from the gut of feelings so it's good to know I'm getting somewhere, thanks to Story Club.