Blogging Prompt: Clichés and Tropes


This week, let’s focus on blog content. Try writing a post or two exploring some of the common clichés and tropes of your genre.

This has three benefits.

  1. Your readers will have something they can reply to
  2. You signal your understanding of your genre
  3. Readers can get a sense of what your book might be like

You could even make this a regular topic – Trope Talk with YourNameHere.

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About Matthew Brown

Matthew is a writer and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include appearing in some future incarnation of TableTop with Wil Wheaton and seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff here when it breaks.

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