| 1 | -> ''"I've written. And rewritten. Deconstructed. Reconstructed. Experimented with different voices. Changed the style. Changed myself. Forgotten the language. Relearned the language. Have I been here before? Gone down this path before?"'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Alan Wake''', ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', "Hotline: On Writing the Manuscript" |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Tropes to do with writing [[{{Literature}} books]]. |
| 5 | ---- |
| 6 | !! Tropes: |
| 7 | [[index]] |
| 8 | [floatboxright: |
| 9 | '''Subcategories:''' |
| 10 | + BookishTropes |
| 11 | + LitClassTropes |
| 12 | + LiteratureGenres |
| 13 | + PoetryTropes |
| 14 | + WritingPitfallIndex |
| 15 | ] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[AC:Books as media]] |
| 18 | * AboutTheAuthor |
| 19 | * TheAnnotatedEdition |
| 20 | * {{Anthology}} |
| 21 | * AirportNovel: A thick but pulpy novel that one buys for cheap at the airport to kill time on the plane. |
| 22 | * TheChristmasAnnual |
| 23 | * ClandestineCover |
| 24 | * ExtrudedBookProduct |
| 25 | * DividedForPublication |
| 26 | * {{Doorstopper}} |
| 27 | * DoubleSidedBook: A book with two flipped sides. |
| 28 | * {{Feghoot}} |
| 29 | * FlashFiction |
| 30 | * {{Gamebooks}} |
| 31 | * UsefulNotes/GreatAmericanNovel |
| 32 | * MultiVolumeWork |
| 33 | * {{Novelization}}: A book adaptation of a work that wasn't a book. |
| 34 | * {{Omnibus}}: A collected edition of a book series containing (almost) the entirety of the series. |
| 35 | * PictureBooks |
| 36 | * PulpMagazine |
| 37 | * RoundRobin |
| 38 | * SerialNovel |
| 39 | * ShortStory |
| 40 | * TrendCovers |
| 41 | * {{Trilogy}} |
| 42 | ** TrilogyCreep |
| 43 | * VanityPublishing: This publisher will publish anything... as long as you pay them. |
| 44 | * WebSerialNovel |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[AC:Narrative techniques]] |
| 47 | * TheAllConcealingI: A story uses a first-person narrative so that the protagonist's true identity can be revealed in a twist ending. |
| 48 | * FirstPersonPerspective |
| 49 | * GenderConcealingWriting |
| 50 | * GenderInclusiveWriting |
| 51 | * GenerationalSaga |
| 52 | * InWhichATropeIsDescribed |
| 53 | * InfectiousEnthusiasm |
| 54 | * {{Kishotenketsu}} |
| 55 | * LeftFieldDescription: Describing important bits in unconventional ways that don't necessarily jump out to the reader. |
| 56 | * LittleDidIKnow: Foreshadowing life-turning events by mentioning the character's initial ignorance of them. |
| 57 | * MillsAndBoonProse |
| 58 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Writers have characters who are writers. |
| 59 | * MultipleNarrativeModes |
| 60 | * NonPOVProtagonist |
| 61 | * OneParagraphChapter: A chapter that's only a paragraph long. |
| 62 | * PageTurnSurprise: A CliffHanger's resolution is on the next page. |
| 63 | * PointOfView |
| 64 | * PresentTenseNarrative |
| 65 | * {{Riddle}}: A word puzzle with logical but non-intuitive answers. |
| 66 | * SaidBookism: The narration avoids the "said" tag by replacing it with any other word. |
| 67 | * SecondPersonNarration |
| 68 | * SliceOfLife: The story is strictly about the characters dealing with mundane, everyday problems. |
| 69 | * SpellMyNameWithABlank: Removing or blanking names to avoid lawsuit. |
| 70 | * TextualCelebrityResemblance |
| 71 | * TomSwifty: A {{pun}}ny adverb sprung from the line of dialogue it tags. |
| 72 | * UnconventionalFormatting |
| 73 | * YoungFaceOldEyes |
| 74 | * TheWalrusWasPaul: The author's explicit intent was to not make sense. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[/index]] |
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