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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Quantus on December 09, 2009, 11:00:25 PM

Title: Literary Wikipedia
Post by: Quantus 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 (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes), 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 (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit), Jerkass Dissonace (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkassDissonance), or the Sidekick Ex Machina (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SidekickExMachina) (which btw is an extreme form of Hypercompetant Sidekick (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypercompetentSidekick) and similar in application to Manic Pixie Dream Girl (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManicPixieDreamGirl)).  Its got a listing of villain levels from Mook  (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mooks)to The Dragon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon), and and a listing of the Flying Brick (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyingBrick) superpower set.   I have now spent that last hour crawling through it soaking all up.  ;D

Title: Re: Literary Wikipedia
Post by: jeno on December 10, 2009, 12:24:49 AM
Ah, tvtropes. The black hole of the internet.

You'll spend more than an hour on that page before you're through... -_-
Title: Re: Literary Wikipedia
Post by: Kris_W on December 10, 2009, 12:27:19 AM
Yes! Yes! Yes! TV Tropes should be mandatory reading for all aspiring authors. And for the perspiring ones, too.

But set a timer - A loud one. Maybe two...

Title: Re: Literary Wikipedia
Post by: Quantus on December 10, 2009, 03:18:27 AM
*blinks*  What happened to the last 5 hours?  :-\
Title: Re: Literary Wikipedia
Post by: Kris_W on December 10, 2009, 04:33:54 AM
Yes. Exactly.

 :D