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

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Eeee! So cool! I put up my own in a different post, by the way.

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.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude. I totally would love a Crack!Manga generator.

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

This? Is really ambitious, and *really* cool. *cheers*

(Also, are you in immediate danger of running out of copies of Project Blue Rose?)