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For questions about commonly-used storytelling devices, such as character stereotypes, plot devices and other tricks of the trade.

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Is it okay to kill off a main LGBT love interest?

Spoiler alert: I'm spoiling "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", season 6 below... if you haven't watched it (where have you been all this time?!) you may want to do that before reading further... You're right …
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How do I subvert the tropes of a train heist?

I'd go with a double (or triple?) con and a play showing you know all about the train heist trope. If your heroine has an antagonist or someone she needs to get rid of, have her plan the whole train …
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Is Bridge Logic a terrible TV trope that should be avoided at all cost?

I'd call this a made-up problem, but if you want to you could always have your characters do trigonometry to figure out what pillar/tree to cut down/push down to get across the chasm. Or, since I assu …
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