Twist Tropes To Enhance Humor & Provide Insight
Don't fear turning to overused ideas. Just alter them.
Conventional wisdom is to avoid tropes in creative work. Audiences and readers might be bored with the same things they’ve seen before or frustrated because they can anticipate what may happen next.
However, much like jokes themselves, familiarity with certain story types or structures can be spun into something surprising and unexpected. Therefore, trop…
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