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There's a danger with subverting tropes, in that you can end up giving misleading promises ... e.g. your story seems to be a romcom for the first 20 pages but then !surprise! it's a horror--well, a...
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2020-01-22T08:51:07Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T12:22:31Z (over 4 years ago)
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There's a _danger_ with subverting tropes, in that you can end up giving misleading _promises_ ... e.g. your story _seems_ to be a romcom for the first 20 pages but then !surprise! it's a horror--well, all the people who wanted horror have not even started the story (they thought it was a romcom), and the people who started it because they wanted a romcom are now terribly dissapointed (they _didn't want_ a horror story) ... that's a very coarse example; you can get the same kind of problem even with much more fine-grained trope-vs-subversion attempts
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2019-07-03T13:11:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 9