The Tropoholic's Guide to Universal Thriller Tropes
The Tropholic's Guide to Thrillers Book 1
by Cindy Dees
Self Published
August 4, 2024
Available in: Paperback, e-Book
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The Tropoholic's Guide to Universal Thriller Tropes
by Cindy Dees
NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and veteran writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in commercial thriller fiction, film, television, and more. In this volume, Cindy does in-depth analysis of 40 iconic thriller tropes found across all sub-genres of thriller fiction.
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 other story format that includes a thriller element, this book is for you.
Each trope entry includes:
- detailed definition and analysis
- list of adjacent tropes
- list of reasons why audiences love this trope
- descriptions of all obligatory scenes necessary to structure this trope correctly
- list 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
- examples of each trope in action taken from television, film, and novels
...writers in every genre and format of fiction are going to want these guides in their shelf of 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.