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Djeser posted:I'm not sure whether this is brilliant or terrible. Either way I want to see more. It reads like DLC for Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden. Lottery of Babylon posted:My characters don't have any personalities because I made them just by sticking a couple of tropes together and calling it a day... Something that I posted in one of the previous threads, and that it still relevant today: You have to remember that tropers essentially engage in cargo cult literature, where they can recognise the components of a story, but not how they interlock and work. Which is why you see story descriptions that have the names of tropes liberally peppered through them as if a story is nothing but a collection of clichés put together into a cohesive mass of horribleness. By way of analogy: A troper will spend years learning about what kind of ingredients typically go into cakes, and compile an exhaustive list of every ingredient and what they taste like on their own. Then the troper will present all of the other tropers with a bowl full of whole unshelled eggs, raw flour, oil, milk, and sugar, all in unstirred heaps, and say 'look at my cake'! And everyone will agree that the cake is delicious because it has eggs, flour, oil, milk, and sugar in it. And there's an unopened packet of instant icing on top, and the icing is rape.
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Somfin posted:The assumption that this is a thing that writers do because it happens all the time in their favourite shows and movies, rather than a thing that producers force writers to do and thus it happens all the time in their favourite shows and movies. I've said it before but it bears repeating: You have to remember that tropers essentially engage in cargo cult literature, where they can recognise the components of a story, but not how they interlock and work. Which is why you see story descriptions that have the names of tropes liberally peppered through them as if a story is nothing but a collection of clichés put together into a cohesive mass of horribleness. By way of analogy: A troper will spend years learning about what kind of ingredients typically go into cakes, and compile an exhaustive list of every ingredient and what they taste like on their own. Then the troper will present all of the other tropers with a bowl full of whole unshelled eggs, raw flour, oil, milk, and sugar, all in unstirred heaps, and say 'look at my cake'! And everyone will agree that the cake is delicious because it has eggs, flour, oil, milk, and sugar in it. And there's an unopened packet of instant icing on top, and the icing is rape.
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purple_sammich posted:Hey thread, was there a troper who seriously overused the word quip in a story of theirs? Like almost every time someone spoke it was like "he quipped", "she quipped playfully", etc? I'm reminded of Brian-San quipping about how his MTG decks were obviously the best to his computer waifu.
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