Tropes I am tired of

[telophase]

If you're a writer and you have a strand or lock of hair fall into a character's eyes and they impatiently push or blow it away, you better have built up a lot of goodwill previously because that's going to lose quite a lot of mine.

If it happens on the first page, as a way to show the color of the character's hair and that she is a tomboyish type of person, you're pretty much sunk, at least from my point of view.

Comments

[nijibug]

amen to this

[telophase]

The ebook sample I was reading last night had the character blow the strand out of her eyes, and I'm sitting there thinking that when I wore my hair longer, blowing on it never got it out of my eyes. It just fluttered momentarily, then fell right back into my face.

[ginny_t]

Hear, hear!

[telophase]

Yup.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Better than if she looked in a mirror to do it!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think authors realized that the mirror had become a cliche and resorted to the unruly lock to replace it!

[trobadora]

I wonder, is it equally annoying if it's a man doing it?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't know, because I can't think of anyplace where a man did it.