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Author Craft / Literary Wikipedia
« on: December 09, 2009, 11:00:25 PM »
Found something I thought you guys would be interested in. I may just be new to the uptake, but I stumbled upon this site called Tvtropes.com, and its freaking fantastic. Its like a wikipedia for modern literary structure, but with a focus more on Stan Lee than Shakespeare. I have never found a place that had so meticulously broken down the modern archetypes and well...literature. I mean, where else could you get a multipage breakdown, with examples, of a Xanatos Gambit, Jerkass Dissonace, or the Sidekick Ex Machina (which btw is an extreme form of Hypercompetant Sidekick and similar in application to Manic Pixie Dream Girl). Its got a listing of villain levels from Mook to The Dragon, and and a listing of the Flying Brick superpower set. I have now spent that last hour crawling through it soaking all up.