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Besides fans, All The Tropes is a resource for storytellers. Tropes are common patterns used in creative writing, and by documenting them, we enable writers to use them more effectively. A major goal of all of our [[ATT:Literary Criticism|Literary Criticism]] is to share this back with the community of writers, so that they can learn from it and produce better stories.
It's worth noting here that [[Tropes Are Not Legos|tropes are not "building blocks" of stories]]; a story consisting only of tropes is not much of a story at all. Rather tropes are useful devices to achieve a dramatic end, and communicate that to your audience efficiently. They are ways to increase [[characterization]], expand the [[setting]], and drive the [[plot]] forward, and work towards a [[theme]]. But the heart of the story has to come from the writer. Tropes added to a bad story make it trite and formulaic, but tropes added to a good story, when used properly, make it shine.
Many of our writing-centric resources are located at the [[Mechanics of Writing]] page, which is also linked to on the site sidebar and the Main Page.
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