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Samuel Fleming Books

Deep Fiction

Category: Tropes

Written by SamuelFlemingBooksMarch 3, 2021March 2, 2021

Monthly Obscure Trope Series — More Dakka

What’s better than a gun going off and bullets flying?   More guns?  More bullets?  A hail of bullets?  Yes.   How does our hero stop a villain who has a gun?   With more guns, of course! Or as the Tv Tropes page says, “More Dakka is the art of solving problems by unloading as many rounds […]

Written by SamuelFlemingBooksFebruary 3, 2021February 6, 2021

Monthly Obscure Trope Series – Punch-Clock Villain

Before we dive into today’s obscure trope, it might be best to preface with morality.  In fiction, there are two general morality scales:  Black-and-White or Grey-and-Grey.   In Black and White morality stories, the heroes and the bad guys are easy to tell apart.  There’s likely some virtuously good force against some clearly evil one.  In […]

Written by SamuelFlemingBooksJanuary 6, 2021January 4, 2021

Monthly Obscure Trope Series – Intro and Training Montage

The Trope Series will be an ongoing, multiangle look at Tropes—what they are, how you can use them, as well as highlighting some specific tropes each month.  My hope is that both readers and writers can get something out of these posts.   https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes First, what is a trope?  Well, a trope is a tool that […]

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