I enjoyed the recent post by Jenny @ The Penslayer about romantic tropes and how you ought to avoid them. I couldn't agree more, especially after reading the complete list of tropes she was talking about.
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It’s a common thread in stories. In fact, it’s almost its own genre. And I have to admit I love the unlikely friendship. It’s a beautiful thing to see two totally different people learn to work together and learn to care about each other in the process. It’s fun to watch people become friends.
I had an unlikely friendship in my Nanowrimo novel which, while it's not pivotal to the story line, is important to both of the character arcs of my characters. So I began to try to take apart this common trope and find out what exactly how to pull it off convincingly in a story.
I MADE IT!!!!
Barely. Very barely. I made the 50,000 word count goal, but I was about 10k behind for most of the month. If it hadn't been for several days off work Thanksgiving week and having only a small and quiet family Thanksgiving celebration, I would never have caught up the 22,000 words I still needed by the end of the month. And technically I cheated because I worked on several stories, plus blog posts and fanfictions, at the same time. But considering that I didn't expect to make the word count goal, I'm very pleased to have done it and to have learned a lot more about both writing and meeting goals in the process. |
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