MadmanRB
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In modern story writing I am seeing this huge trend in younger writers who do everything they can to avoid tropes.
Trope avoidance is an issue that can drive one mad too and leave stories feeling static or unsatisfactory.
This is because for many tropes = clichés, and it's rather sad when it happens.
But for me, I try to embrace the tropes of my chosen genre and have fun with it as once upon a time I desperately tried hard to avoid what I thought at the time were clichés but are really staples of whatever genre I write for.
If it's a murder mystery I embrace the cyanide or the knife, if its science fiction I embrace the spaceships and aliens.
To me a trope only becomes a cliché when it's not executed properly, I mean we all have seen the retirony trope played out to death though I actually have a story in mind where the main plot is the aforementioned retirony making the death more meaningful as we get to see their life up until they are killed off five days from retirement :D
Point is yes tropes can easily become a cliché but if you put effort into it then said cliché becomes a more valuable trope and actually mean something in your story.
Trope avoidance is an issue that can drive one mad too and leave stories feeling static or unsatisfactory.
This is because for many tropes = clichés, and it's rather sad when it happens.
But for me, I try to embrace the tropes of my chosen genre and have fun with it as once upon a time I desperately tried hard to avoid what I thought at the time were clichés but are really staples of whatever genre I write for.
If it's a murder mystery I embrace the cyanide or the knife, if its science fiction I embrace the spaceships and aliens.
To me a trope only becomes a cliché when it's not executed properly, I mean we all have seen the retirony trope played out to death though I actually have a story in mind where the main plot is the aforementioned retirony making the death more meaningful as we get to see their life up until they are killed off five days from retirement :D
Point is yes tropes can easily become a cliché but if you put effort into it then said cliché becomes a more valuable trope and actually mean something in your story.