The Tropoholic's Guide to Backstory Romance Tropes
The Tropoholic's Guides Book 3
by Cindy Dees
Self Published
March 5, 2024
Available in: Paperback, e-Book
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The Tropoholic's Guide to Backstory Romance Tropes
by Cindy Dees
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 backstory romance tropes, the stories made up of the lingering problems, scars, and needs from your hero's and heroine's pasts that must be overcome before they can achieve happiness and true love.
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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 writinganygenre 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...
...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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Cindy Dees' Bio
Hi, I'm Cindy Dees! I first began writing while I was a pilot in the United States Air Force because I bet my Mom a dollar I could write a book. I won the bet in short order and realized I loved to write in the process. I criss-crossed the world for years with my trusty laptop in tow, waiting eagerly for the day when my security clearances expired and I could start sharing my stories with you. And finally, that day has arrived! When I left the Air Force to start a family, it was a natural transition for me to an LWD-6, a Large Wooden Desk with six drawers, and my well-traveled laptop computer, of course. My first book introduces an elite Air Force Special Forces team, known simply as Charlie Squad, to readers. And to answer the inevitable question, yes, I do relate some of my own real life experiences in my books. As for which parts of my books are real, all I'll say on the subject is that I'm happily married to my own real life, Air Force pilot hero. I live on a ranch near Fort Worth, Texas with the man of my dreams, our daughter, three dogs, and an assortment of creeping and crawling critters my daughter brings in to the house.