tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901370917824739259.post6845097163570396549..comments2024-03-27T10:02:56.747-04:00Comments on Fiction University: Fix Your Reader’s Pet Peeves: Relying on Old Tropes Janice Hardyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356672149097741248noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901370917824739259.post-85906831125188980632015-09-30T08:49:43.595-04:002015-09-30T08:49:43.595-04:00Exactly. Summed it up perfectly. Exactly. Summed it up perfectly. Janice Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356672149097741248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901370917824739259.post-62717629994146021422015-09-30T08:48:47.023-04:002015-09-30T08:48:47.023-04:00I wanted to see the movie, but just based on casti...I wanted to see the movie, but just based on casting, I feared that it would not live up to the book. Sad to hear that's true. The book was great.Janice Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356672149097741248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901370917824739259.post-63115901514877109112015-09-21T18:40:37.977-04:002015-09-21T18:40:37.977-04:00It's wise to know the difference between a tro...It's wise to know the difference between a trope and a genre expectation. A trope can be twisted, forgotten, or deleted, and a reader doesn't care, but fail to live up to a genre expectation, and you totally alienate the reader.<br /><br />In other words, offering a weird version of a marriage of convenience in a romance is fine, but you'd dang well better have a happy romantic ending.<br /><br />Another way to work around tropes is having characters so strong and individual with a worthy goal that the reader is so connected with them that she is blind to the tropes.Marilynn Byerlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16720129999636676998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901370917824739259.post-64734934354988684262015-09-21T12:00:05.228-04:002015-09-21T12:00:05.228-04:00Great post. I recently watch The DUFF and was disa...Great post. I recently watch The DUFF and was disappointed they took a rather deep book that showed a more realistic and unfortunate response by the main character and turned it into every typical teen ugly duckling is finally realized not to be ugly (cuz well, she wasn't). I think the story as written could have helped more people.GSMarlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17558162486383585621noreply@blogger.com