Fic tropes list version 1

[telophase]

Here's my preliminary cataloging of the fic tropes in 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*

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The idea swum up after reading oyceter's attempt to construct a story involving all of her Cool Bits^TM (http://oyceter.livejournal.com/447257.html), which reads exactly like a hit manga. XD

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.

[oyceter]

Dude, I am so, so tempted to go through everyone's Cool Bits (TM) and try to make something up. Just because doing mine was so fun and SO ON CRACK.