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Using Tropes To Strengthen Your Fiction With Jennifer Hilt
What are tropes and how can you use them to strengthen your fiction? What are some examples of horror tropes, in particular? With Jennifer Hilt.
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Jennifer Hilt is the USA Today best-selling author of over 24 books across four pen names, writing in urban fantasy, supernatural suspense and paranormal romance. Her books for authors include The Trope Thesaurus, Trope Your Way to a Stronger Story, and appropriately for Halloween, The Horror Trope Thesaurus: Killing it with Tropes.
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Show Notes
* Creating the time to write despite a full life* What is a trope and why are they important?* The five categories of tropes* The diversity of the horror genres* Writing familiar tropes without becoming cliché* Examples from horror TV — Stranger Things and Midnight Mass — as well as books* Using tropes in book marketing
You can find Jennifer Hilt at jenniferhilt.com and on Twitter @jenehilt
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Transcript of Interview with Jennifer Hilt
Joanna: Jennifer Hilt is the USA Today best-selling author of over 24 books across four pen names,