How Tropes Are Cannibalizing Your Creativity

Ask any ten authors why they started writing, and you’ll get answers along the lines of “I wanted to tell the kinds of stories I couldn’t find anywhere else.”

It’s true that we’re storytellers first. But sooner or later, every writer who wants to share his work with the world runs up against the walls of genre tropes.

For a brief moment—if you’re lucky—yo…