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* ''Literature/HelpMyStoryHasTheMarySueDisease'' by L.C. Morgenstern. Goes through cliches and tropes associated with the dreaded MarySue by topic, but doubles as general character-writing advice.

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* ''Literature/HelpMyStoryHasTheMarySueDisease'' by L.C. Morgenstern. Goes through cliches and tropes associated with the dreaded MarySue archetype by topic, but doubles as general character-writing advice.

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* ''Literature/HowToReadNancy''

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* ''Literature/HowToReadNancy''''Literature/HowToReadNancy'': Analysis of the comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Nancy}}''.
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* [[http://blog.heterodoxhomosexual.com/2017/03/planning-on-writing-gay-novel-expanded.html Planning on writing a gay novel?]] is based on clichés in gay fiction.
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* "Literature/TheAuthorsOrdeal": Turns the exercise of writing a ScienceFiction story into a [[{{Theatre/Iolanthe}} nightmare]] of obsession and distraction until [[SecondPersonNarration you]] can finally finish the manuscript.
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* [[/index]]''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''[[index]]
** CharacterAlignment
** PlayerArchetypes

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* [[/index]]''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''[[index]]
[[/index]]TabletopGames such as ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' have:[[index]]
** CharacterAlignment
CharacterAlignment (mostly in D&D)
** PlayerArchetypesPlayerArchetypes (discussed in assorted books, magazine articles, etc.)
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* ''Literature/TheThreeDecker'' by Creator/RudyardKipling
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* ''Webanimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''

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* ''Webanimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''
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* "Literature/TheCraftOfTheAdventure": Essay on InteractiveFiction game design.
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** ''JackButlersOriginalEvilOverlordList''
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* UsefulNotes/RelationalModelsTheory
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* The Literature/BigListOfRPGPlots by [[TabletopGame/{{Risus}} S. John Ross]] contains 33 common TabletopRPG adventure hooks and a larger number of twists that can be applied to them.
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* ''Literature/HelpMyStoryHasTheMarySueDisease'' by L.C. Morgenstern. Goes through cliches and tropes associated with the dreaded MarySue by topic, but doubles as general character-writing advice.
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* ''Literature/TextualPoachersTelevisionFansAndParticipatoryCulture'': Henry Jenkins' landmark study of fandom and how fans interact with the media they consume, including several chapters on fan works.
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* ''Literature/HelpMyStoryHasTheMarySueDisease'' by L.C. Morgenstern. Goes through cliches and tropes associated with the dreaded MarySue by topic, but doubles as general character-writing advice.
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* [[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 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.

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* [[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 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.
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* [[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 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.
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* TheSevenWesternPlots
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* ''Manga/EvenAMonkeyCanDrawManga'': A manga about how to write cliché-filled manga.
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* ''Literature/HowToReadNancy''
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* ''Literature/HowToBeASuperhero''
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* ''Literature/WhatDoesAMartianLookLike?'' (aka. ''Evolving the Alien'') by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart is about exobiology -- but it also takes a science fiction author's point of view for imagining the alien, and discusses a lot of the traditional tropes associated with aliens in fiction, most of which are revealed as anything but realistic.
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* "Literature/TheFoundationOfSFSuccess": Gives advice on tropes/tricks of popular ScienceFiction for potential new writers. ([[PlayedForLaughs Take it with a grain of salt.]])

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* ''[[UsefulNotes/FiveFoundationsOfMorality 5 Foundations of Morality]]''
* ''[[Literature/FortyFiveMasterCharacters 45 Master Characters]]''
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-Heroes}} Heroes]]
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-Heroines}} Heroines]]
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-SupportCharacters}} Support Characters]]

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* ''[[UsefulNotes/FiveFoundationsOfMorality 5 Foundations of Morality]]''
''UsefulNotes/FiveFoundationsOfMorality''
* ''[[Literature/FortyFiveMasterCharacters 45 Master Characters]]''
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-Heroes}} Heroes]]
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-Heroines}} Heroines]]
** [[Literature/{{FortyFiveMasterCharacters-SupportCharacters}} Support Characters]]
''Literature/FortyFiveMasterCharacters''



** [[Literature/{{TCWGTHAH-Heroes}} Hero list]]
** [[Literature/{{TCWGTHAH-Heroines}} Heroine list]]
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* ''Literature/MechanicsDynamicsAesthetics''

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* Creator/BishopBarron's works often look at the philosophical and religious background of the most popular tropes in today's culture.
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* ''Blog/WorstMuse'': A Website/{{Twitter}} blog which [[{{Snark}} sarcastically]] passes off terrible writing practices and {{Cliches}} as good writing tips, inevitably mocking them to hell and back in the process.

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

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* ''Power Screenwriting'' has StructuralArchetypes: The Hero Myth, Outlaw Myth, Inverted Myth, etc.



* ''Power Screenwriting'' has StructuralArchetypes: The Hero Myth, Outlaw Myth, Inverted Myth, etc.

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