Conveniently Interrupted Document: Difference between revisions
Conveniently Interrupted Document (view source)
Revision as of 01:19, 24 February 2015
, 9 years agoclean up
m (Mass update links) |
m (clean up) |
||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:
[[Scrapbook Story|Scrapbook Stories]], [[Epistolary Novel
Simple! Have the author of the fictional document {{spoiler|go over the offending part of the document with a felt-tip pen.}}
This trope refers to cases in which [[Fictional Document
It can also be used when the document is not actually damaged, but the character reading it gets interrupted in the course of doing so, thus preventing the character (and the reader) from discovering important information.
This is primarily a literary trope, but can pop up in any work which features [[Fictional Document
In cases like the first example, it can be a blazingly unsubtle example of [[Take Our Word for It]]. Commonly found (of course) in [[Scrapbook Story|Scrapbook Stories]] and other works which make use of [[Fictional Document
{{examples|Examples: }}
|