Strange Horizons Doesn't Want to Read This Story

[jeriendhal]

Or any of these either

Gacked from kippurbird

I'm guilty of at least a couple of these, I'll freely admit. :)

Comments

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

... I think I've only done 4a. Then again, I might have fallen into one or two more if I were writing more sci-fi.

.. that said, I can think of at least one example in what I read where I absolutely love love love #35. Yes, it's a twee fairy with wings and his name is Toot toot. (Well, not precisely, but you can't know the name or you'd be able to call him up, and you shouldn't!)

Ahem. One of these days I'll hop over and explore TV Tropes. Not enough brain for that right now.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Hey, you can at least look at the Terinu page over there. It'd be nice if some else could edit it some time! ;p

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

... okay, I'll keep that in mind, yes. I need to first get the logic behind TV Tropes fully - I have some ideas, but my experience with it is mostly second-hand, so...

Mmm Friday.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

The logic is that it will suck out ALL of your free time. You'd be amazed at how many tabs you're going to have open on your browser once you start looking...

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

>.> That is why I am leaving it for a time when I have more brain cells functioning.

[lennan.livejournal.com]

Oh, god that is so true.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

There's logic behind TV Tropes? Well, there is, I suppose, but I think most of it is GREAT BIG BLACK HOLE OF TIME EATING.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Oh. *ponders*

[kodi]

It's entertaining to look through the list and mentally categorize them into "ideas that are overused because one or more authors did them really well once" and "ideas that are overused because we can't all be good writers."