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cynicalmusings · 15 days ago

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a vaguely interesting tidbit i’ve realised about my writing recently: i’m becoming less and less interested in writing tropes, as much as characters in relationships. whereas in the past i quite enjoyed thinking & writing about certain popular dynamics, aus, tropes, etc. (e.g. enemies to lovers, hurt/ comfort, college au), now they’ve just… lost their initial intrigue.

and i wouldn’t say they no longer appeal to me at all, but now it’s primarily the characters themselves—their motivations, internal struggles, etc.—and how a relationship develops as a result of their individual traits which is more appealing to me as something to explore. the only time i’m properly invested in a trope is when there’s a spin on it, or it’s somehow subverted to take it out of the typical mainstream.

#i’ve mentioned this before but i find tropes quite constraining and not that interesting anymore (at least on their own)#it’s like designing a relationship so that the dynamic informs the characters instead of the other way around #and in doing so it becomes less personal & unique to those characters #which is kind of the whole point (for me at least) of engaging with characters and their relationships #there’s nothing wrong with enjoying tropes and using them to engage with characters & dynamics ofc #it’s just something i noticed in my more recent writing (by ‘recent’ i mean roughly since last year onwards)#r’s random thoughts

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