The Tropoholic's Guide to Internal Romance Tropes

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 33 iconic internal romance tropes, the stories of personal affliction, wounds, fears, and personality traits that form obstacles to love inside the hearts and minds of your characters.

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 analysis
descriptions of all obligatory scenes necessary to structure this trope correctly
lists of additional key scenes important to this trope
an extensive list of questions to think about when writing this trope
an extensive list of traps to avoid when writing this trope
reasons why audiences love this trope
a list of similar tropes
a list of examples of each trope in action taken from television, film, and novels

every kind of writer in every genre of fiction is going to want these guides in their go-to reference books

a tour de force how-to on creating stories audiences adore

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