Tropes and Schemes
I composed this e-book to help myself and others get acquainted with the nuances of writing. I’ve included as many as 69 tropes and schemes with explanations and examples, so you won’t need to bother to make a list.
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Dangers for Fiction Writers
Dangers for Fiction Writers is a free ebook that warns you against possible flaws that might scar your fiction. From boring beginnings, slow pace, unconvincing characters, faulty jumps in time to bad structure, scale, complexity, narration and action; Dangers for Fiction Writers will help you glide through the potholes.
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Begin Writing Fiction
How many times have you thought of writing a book? Many, you will say. But you never got down to the actual writing. Begin Writing Fiction is a concise e-book that helps you with building characters, POV, setting, plot, narration, dialogue, style and avoiding clichés so that you can begin writing your book today.
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10 Handy Fiction Writing Resources
1. Here to Create
This page has the ‘I-wanted-it’ list of great resources for fiction writers. From character building, POV, dialogue, plot, conflict, story world, structure, ideas to everything writing related under the universal sun.
2. Fiction Factor
On this page, you will find good advice on various topics such as conflict, sub-plot, main plot, narrative, ending etc. [...]
List of best publishing websites
Book Market
This page has a list of 400+ book editors including editors of first novels with full address, phone number, fax, e-mail and website address.
Cader Books
On this page, you will answers to questions ranging from how to find an agent to how to write a good book proposal. The information provided is concise and well [...]
Schemes
Schemes
When there is a change in the usual order of words for rhetorical effect, then it’s called a scheme. Schemes deal with word order, letters, syntax and sounds whereas trope deals with modifying the meaning of a word.
Scheme comes from Greek schēma meaning “form” or “shape”.
Tropes
Tropes
Trope is a figure of speech in which the use of a word or a phrase other than in its literal meaning changes the meaning of a sentence. The word trope comes from Greek tropos meaning turn. That is, turning the meaning of a sentence another way by the use of a word(s). There are [...]
