Guilty Pleasure Tropes You Use...

I'm the sort of person who makes wildly implausible fantasy stories, but doesn't like to screw with the laws of physics or probability too much.

Actual armour is not always situationally appropriate.

edited 11th Jun '11 7:55:39 PM by BobbyG

I try to justify plot armor by also having minimal amounts of red shirts.

One of my character is a lesbian who also happens to be a vampire. She doesn't really fit the Lesbian Vampire trope, though, since she doesn't/can't "turn" other girls.

I'm genuinely surprised to see people considering Narrative Filigree a "Guilty Pleasure". Same for Anyone Can Die, to a lesser extent. I'm a little confused now - are we talking about tropes we feel guilty for using because we have problems with them, or because readers might?

I was talking about tropes that might annoy the readers, because that's what this thread purports to be about.

Narrative Filigree is a little more Postmodernism, and since some editors cry "omit needless details"...

Tropes that would annoy my readers wouldn't really be a Guilty Pleasure in my book. I very much like to mess with fictional conventions and reader expectations, which I know is like to annoy those people looking for a formulaic work - but I don't care about that.

I never saw it as post-modernist, but my writing style has nothing but disrespect for the Law of Conservation of Detail. I don't think the "law" is objectively bad, but it certainly doesn't work with my approach to writing.

The cocnept of twin's being particulay close.