The Tropoholic's Guide to Hook Romance Tropes

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 32 iconic hook romance tropes stories that explore </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ways your hero and heroine meet and come together as a couple and how that initial meeting establishes a set of problems that must be overcome before the hero and heroine can achieve their happily ever after.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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 writing </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>any </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>genre of fiction in which you'd like to include a romantic relationship this book is for you.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each trope entry includes:</span></p><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a detailed definition and analysis</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>descriptions of all obligatory scenes necessary to structure this trope correctly</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>lists of additional key scenes important to this trope</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an extensive list of questions to think about when writing this trope</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an extensive list of traps to avoid when writing this trope</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>reasons why audiences love this trope</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a list of similar tropes</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a list of examples of each trope in action taken from television film and novels</span></li></ol><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...writers in every genre of fiction are going to want these guides in their go-to reference books...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...a tour de force how-to on creating stories audiences adore...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...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...</span></p><p><br></p>