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{{quote|''Storytelling is the opposite of reductionism; 26 letters and some rules of grammar are no story at all.''|[[Terry Pratchett]], Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen|The Science of [[Discworld]]}}
One criticism frequently leveled at the [[TV Tropes]] Wiki (and by extension applying to All The Tropes) is that what tropers do is nothing more than cataloging—breaking apart fiction into its component pieces and tallying them up. An apt analogy would be attempting to understand a pocket watch by taking it apart, piling all the parts that resemble each other together and sorting the gears by size. The argument is made that while these components might be identified and understood, it is at the expense of the larger structure. A story, regardless of its medium, is greater than the sum of its parts, and by looking only at those parts in relative isolation one misses the synergy that forms when they are combined by a skilled creator.
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Among other things, it is this crafting of unique instances of tropes that helps distinguish the successful storyteller from the hack. This section of the wiki is intended to explore the means by which this crafting is managed, and beyond that, how these "customized" tropes are combined into greater wholes. Some of the pages included here will be familiar, having already existed at All The Tropes and its predecessor—in some cases for upwards of a decade as of this writing. Others will be new. This section will at times resemble a writer's guide, if only because the very explanations of the processes involved in successful storytelling ''are'' useful guides to a writer seeking to improve his work. As with everything else on the wiki, the goal is both to entertain ''and'' to inform.
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