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* ''UsefulNotes/MechanicsDynamicsAesthetics''

* {{Dramatica}} -- This is a rather complicated literary theory that divides story telling into 4 story tellers, 64 "Quads" of 4 properties that examine 64 questions that must each be explored and resolved and...well...There's a 360 page PDF to read and you can buy a rather expensive program to sort it all out. Like most theories, it works pretty well often enough to help most of the time, but there are exceptions. The [[http://www.dramatica.com/downloads/dramaticomic.pdf comic book version]] is pretty easy to follow.

* [[{{Conflict}} The 7 Basic Conflicts]]: as formulated by various [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative) critics]] after the fashion of Arthur Quiller-Couch.\\

* Polish ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'''s article on [[https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Teoria_filmowej_rzeczywistości "Theory Of Movie Reality"]]

* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction

* ''Literature/FenimoreCoopersLiteraryOffences''

* [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY Ebert's Little Movie Glossary]]

* [[http://shannahmcgill.tumblr.com/ The Right Writing]]

* Polish ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'''s article on [[https://nonsa.pl/wiki/Teoria_filmowej_rzeczywisto%C5%9Bci "Theory Of Movie Reality"]]

* [[http://www.cs.utah.edu/~duongsaa/more_htm/jk_100animeRules.htm 100 Rules of Anime Physics]]

* ''Literature/{{The Characters}}'' of Theophrastus (you can read it [[https://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/ here]])

* ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'' by Creator/{{Aristotle}}: One of the oldest, focusing on comedy, tragedy, and epics.

* ''Literature/The Characters'' of Theophrastus [[https://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/ (you can read it here)]]

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriters_Taxonomy The Screenwriters' Taxonomy]]: A seven-tiered genre categorization system for films.

* [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriters_Taxonomy The Screenwriters' Taxonomy]]

* [[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]: Originally published, for two editions, in paper form; the third edition is now a large and continually maintained Web site. The entries on “Themes” cover many topics that correspind to tropes round here. [[http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]] was originally published as a follow-up and companion to the former work, and the full, indexed text of that is held on the same Web site, but is not being updated; it too has a lot of entries for themes, though one should note that many of them are somewhat ... idiosyncratically ... named or described by critic John Clute.

We here at Wiki/TVTropes are [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to collect tropes and try to put them in some semblance of order. If you happen to run across a resource (a book, website, or other useful thing) that discusses a set of tropes, write up a summary page and stick the link on this index.

* ''Blog/WorstMuse'': A Website/{{Twitter}} blog which [[{{Snark}} sarcastically]] passes off [[AuthorTract terrible]] [[CanonSue writing practices]] and {{Cliche}}s as good writing tips, inevitably mocking them to hell and back in the process.

* ''Literature/OnFairyStories''

* [[http://www.granta.com/Archive/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1 How to Write about Africa]] and [[http://www.ourmaninabiko.com/2010/10/how-to-write-about-japan.html How to Write about Japan]]; actually, how ''not'' to write about these places.

* ''Literature/HowNOTToWriteANovel'', by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman. Contains around 200 examples of bad writing, many of them dealing with Bad Writing or tropes used horribly.