- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Basic Member Pricing: $20.00
- Category
- Characters
- Description/Setting
- Structure
- Genre
- GMC
- Plotting
- POV
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
- Writer's Life
- Class Length
- 1 Week
Tropes and cliches are useful tools you can use to help craft your story. But you can also break them to create a fresh breath of air in an otherwise stale plot. The romance genre has one of the most extensive lists of tropes around, and a collective of readers ready to defend them with everything they’ve got.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the main romance tropes around and how you can use them in your story. We’ll also examine ways you can steer away from tropes and cliches without upsetting fans too much.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the main romance tropes around and how you can use them in your story. We’ll also examine ways you can steer away from tropes and cliches without upsetting fans too much.
- It’s Destiny - Learn the common romance tropes, why they’re so popular, and how you can utilize them in your own stories.
- Veering Left - Learn ways to take common romance tropes and tweak them slightly to create a fresh take on a story without straying too far from the classics romance readers expect.
- Destruction - Learn effective methods for setting up common tropes and then carefully deconstructing them in a powerful way.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
