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The Tropoholic's Guide to Hook Romance Tropes
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781950651450
Publisher: Cynthia Dees Publishing Inc
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 32 iconic hook romance tropes, stories that explore ways your hero and heroine meet and come together as a couple and how that initial meeting establishes a set of problems that must be overcome before the hero and heroine can achieve their happily ever after.
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Written by a working writer for working writers, this is a comprehensive reference guide and brainstorming tool to help you quickly generate ideas, create characters and plot, revise and edit, brand and market your story. You'll write faster, cleaner, and deliver your audience a story they'll recognize and love.
If you're writing a novel, script, play, comic, graphic novel, video game script, or any other story format, this book is for you. If you're writing a love story specifically, or you're writing any genre of fiction in which you'd like to include a romantic relationship, this book is for you.
Each trope entry includes:
- a detailed definition and analysisdescriptions of all obligatory scenes necessary to structure this trope correctlylists of additional key scenes important to this tropean extensive list of questions to think about when writing this tropean extensive list of traps to avoid when writing this tropereasons why audiences love this tropea list of similar tropesa list of examples of each trope in action taken from television, film, and novels
...writers in every genre of fiction are going to want these guides in their go-to reference books...
...a tour de force how-to on creating stories audiences adore...
...the books every writer has been waiting for-a comprehensive walk-through by an industry pro of everything to think about when building a story of pretty much any kind...
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