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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