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An explorer crash lands on a planet and begins the grueling tasks of securing food, shelter, and making repairs. What appears to be a series of coincidences to the stranded explorer is actually the planet-sized organism enthusiastically showing hospitality to its first guest in a long time.
Hey Neil! Do you have any advice for aspiring authors around dealing with tropes? I'm writing something but at times it feels like everything is too trope-y. I don't want to go against the tropes though just for the sake of it! Cheers - A very self critical writer
I kind of wish that the whole "TV tropes" thing had never happened, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned it's like a website that analyses word use or letter of the alphabet use, with the additional function of making people self-conscious.
There aren't a lot of story shapes. In a love story, people get to meet. Either they meet dramatically or they meet in a way that is interesting by being undramatic. Either they fall for each other or they don't, or one falls but the other doesn't. Something had better prevent them from getting together, whether it's pride or a guard with a gun, because otherwise you don't have a plot, unless they get together and then something goes wrong... and on and on. Everything is going to be some kind of trope, and none of that actually matters. What matters is the story. Pretend you've never heard of tropes.
Tell your story. Tell it new, tell it freshly, have fun telling it. Make characters we care about, give them interesting problems to solve, sort it out in the end or at least make the ending, whether happy or sad, feel satisfying, and you'll be fine.
For a little over 2,000 years you have studied every martial art and combat style. You continually compete in tournaments and gracefully take 6th or 7th place to avoid notice while scouting new styles. Today, your opponent opens with a move that died away shortly before you turned Vampire.
We were taught the Sun didn’t make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn’t realize it was there until it wasn’t. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place.
Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there.
The war had been going on for over 100 years now. Not that you’d ever seen it, living in a bunker your entire life. But one day, a news war reporter suddenly says, “I can’t do this anymore. Everything is fine! They’re lying! Th-” And the signal cut out.
“Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord…” Your mentor and all of your allies suddenly turn their weapons on you, “…but you were meant to be a martyr. Forgive us.”
Long ago, you made a wish for immortality to a genie but the genie twisted it and made you ageless instead. After meeting an actual immortal person, you look back on it and reflect on how the genie was actually looking out for you.
Thanks to a clerical error in the afterlife, the ghost of a mafia don has been assigned guardian angel duty. He turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to his young charge.
You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn’t, and that horrifies you
For the past 17 years, an old man has been leaving flowers at each gravestone in a graveyard on Saturday. When he goes out of town in order to meet his relatives he gets kidnapped. The ghosts, upset at losing their favorite human and not ready for the old man to join them go out to find him.
Wizards seldom take Muggle “Science” seriously, as Magic can achieve the same results with almost none of the work. That is, until one studious wizard applied the Scientific Method to magic, and advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts by 20 years in one week.
You are a 100 year old lady living alone, your neighbor offered to buy your house and let you live in it rent free. Its been 10 years now, he doesn’t know you are immortal and he is getting very inpatient!
You have insulted the God of Laziness by taking an effort to build a shrine for him. Now he’s gotten a series of other gods and supernatural beings to do you in on his behalf.
“I will avenge my brother’s death!” yelled the adventurer. “You have my bow” his archer companion said. “And my axe” said the warrior. “And your brother” said the Necromancer.
You have a very active imagination. You often spend your daily commute creating different stories in your head. One day, when you get up to leave the bus at your stop, a frustrated voice shouts: “Aw, come on! You were just getting to the good part!”
You love your boyfriend but even you have to admit he’s kind of a creep sometimes. Curious about what goes on in his head, you take an experimental mind reading pill. Turns out his thoughts are just non-stop wholesome to an overwhelming degree.
