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Fic tropes list version 1
Here's my preliminary cataloging of the fic tropes in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija's cool bits post. The categories are ... yuck, right now, as is my categorization, but when you're going through a list of over 500 elements, it's amazing how often you're confronted with something that is extrememly hard to decide if it's plot, character, dramatic imagery, sensation, or what. And for some reason I ended up slinging all the language stuff into 'sensation' when it doens't belong there at all. Hm. Thoughts and suggestions quite welcome.
http://www.sfolse.net/random/fic-tropes-1.html About 250K, because I did a simple Save As in Excel, rather than build the table myself. :D
Next logical step: add more of everything, then stealdragonscholar's generator code and make a Crack!Manga generator. *iz tempted*
rachelmanija's cool bits post. The categories are ... yuck, right now, as is my categorization, but when you're going through a list of over 500 elements, it's amazing how often you're confronted with something that is extrememly hard to decide if it's plot, character, dramatic imagery, sensation, or what. And for some reason I ended up slinging all the language stuff into 'sensation' when it doens't belong there at all. Hm. Thoughts and suggestions quite welcome.http://www.sfolse.net/random/fic-tropes-1.html About 250K, because I did a simple Save As in Excel, rather than build the table myself. :D
Next logical step: add more of everything, then steal
dragonscholar's generator code and make a Crack!Manga generator. *iz tempted*
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I think "writing" counts as a category, and I would also have categories for animals, fighting, food, clothing, bodies, and accessories, as all of those come up so often. Now you just need to combine the ones that got mentioned repeatedly, ie, I don't think "female assassins" and "cold female assassins" need separate categories. You could also do sub-types, ie, "Cold female assassins (4 votes); cold female assassins and the gentle men who love them (1 vote.)
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Categories are slippery: one of the respondents told me that she meant horses specifically as characters, as in Black Beauty, rather than ... er, elements in the setting? - for want of a better word. Which is sort of why I put 'werewolves' in 'characters' as well - the thought that the werewolf in question would probably be treated as a character instead of some sort of background or setting element - Remus Lupin, as opposed to Fenrir Grayback, who is as of HP book 6 still mostly vague and backgroundy. Animals as background/setting would be more like the raptors in Hawkmistress, where they don't function as characters but are elements that support the characters and the actions. If that makes sense.
I've combined some things already; it's just hard to find them, especially when I've managed to sling them into two different categories. XD
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Off home now, will ponder on the drive.
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It would be hard to make the generator's narrative flow like that, but it could certainly come up with characters, setting, plot elements, theme, dramatic imagery, and so on and leave it to the reader to construct the narrative.
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(Also, are you in immediate danger of running out of copies of Project Blue Rose?)
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(Not quite yet - there's about 10-12 copies available, I think. :D)
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Huh, that's handy--it still has your address from when I ordered BPAL.
Sent!
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get dressedgo to the post office, so I've got it. :)no subject