Trope-Driven Writing

Logan's critique of young writers who learned storytelling from video games and anime more than literature, then assemble books from trope checklists and even market them that way. The result is a paint-by-numbers picture without the author's signature.

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  merchant of masksEp 6 · with Logan Macnair

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• TV Tropes

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• At the end of the day it's kind of like a paint by numbers. You're creating this picture, but it doesn't really have your signature on it.Logan Macnair · Ep 6 · 1:24:25

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• Fusion
• Read a lot, write a lot, find your signature