TV Tropes.org

Yep-yep, Troper over here! *waves*

There's also a NaNoWriMo topic in the forums over there, so a few others should be popping up over here eventually.

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I haven't deliberately used a trope yet, but when I'm stuck I like looking through the wiki for inspiration. It has lead to a lot of extended Wiki Walks.

I love TV Tropes! I've gotten so many ideas from there. And I've spent so much time on that site, I've actually started using their terms when I'm writing my notes. The only problem is once you fall in, it takes a few hours to climb back out again.

...which is why I question its inclusion in "Helpful" orgs and sites... maybe "Procrastination and games"??? :)

Participant since 2001 ~ Winner since 2002!

They have a good collection of character building info:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.BooksOnTrope

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Lizbetann
2006 - Napoleonic Killer Robots (WON)
2007 - The Haunt of Eagles (WON)
2008 - Bermuda Triangle (failed)
2009 - The Power of the Persuasion (?)

And an entire index on advice, including How to Write a Story and How to Avoid Writing a Mary Sue

You linked to that site. I should probably close this tab because it's time to finish my breakfast and brush my teeth.

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http://www.sushimustwrite.com

AHHHHHHHHHHH! You need a "Warning: links to TV Tropes" in the title. XD

I love that site. I love it so hard, it has eaten whole weeks of my life. So many options for mockery and nose-thumbing, all available in one listing.

-K.

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who loves that place. I'm actually intending on using some Tropes in my work this year. Should be fun!

If I have money, I buy books, and if there is any left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

Just remember kids, TvTropes Will Ruin Your Life! :D

As one of my many ways to procrastinate, I like to sit there and list every single trope my story evokes ever. Even the ones it purposely avoids. Or inverts. And I used it to set up some of the basics of my story. XP I'm a pathetically addicted troper.

"I would my love could kill thee; I am satiated
With seeing the live, and fain would have thee dead.
I would earth had thy body as fruit to eat,
And no mouth but some serpent's found thee sweet."

This is a fantastic website, but I don't think it's wise to use it during NaNo: it's so... addictive... Like *clicks* *woosh* "Hey, is it five hours later already?"

*eyes hyperlink warily*

Troper The Evil Oboist reporting for duty! :D

It's actually kind of amazing how much TV tropes has helped my writing since I discovered it last year. At least, when it's not preventing me from getting any writing done.

2006: Wearing the Green and Gold
2007: Sousa: A Tale of Blood, Sweat, and Caffeine
2008: Canfyre
2009: Canfyre #2 (working title)

TV Tropes FTW! I lost a whole two weeks of my life looking through that website and it was fantastic!

2008-11,589 words
2009-?

This website ate my life!! Nowadays whenever I'm bored and need a place to go on the Internet, it's straight to TVTropes! @_@ I've even started using the trope names in my speech!

But I love it, though! ^_^

I swear most people don't even think before they speak. At all. Their mouths just go on auto-pilot and the most useless noise comes out.

Ken Dee (thanks for letting me quote this! ^_^

Oh, god. I love to hate to love this site. It's so handy in ideas but so time-consuming! And addicting! I once had three browser windows open with at least 30 tabs of TVTropes links open in each window (I love my laptop for not telling me to frig off for that). That site just sucks you right in and holds you hostage. Not that that's entirely a bad thing.

I think this is appropriate here...

“Sweet baby Jesus, man, it’s Jory! 'Marjorie' is an old lady in the fields milking cows!”

It's less "I use tvtropes" than "tvtropes uses me." At least, that's the way it turns out after an hour of going through endless tabs.

Great site though, and sometimes useful. I'm just gonna try to stay away during NaNo proper...

TV Tropes is the site that would kill my NaNo if I let it, if only for being a huge ocean of inspiration for my muse to be sucked into.

I just spent three hours on tv tropes thanks to this thread. AAAAAARGH

Well played, well played. Your Xanatos Gambit has worked. In linking to TVTropes, you have ensured that the word count and planning of several forum members will be adversely affected.

I get sucked in every year about a month before NaNo. Luckily, the pressure of having to finish 50k in 30 days always snaps me out of it. For a good hour today, I didn't have a single TVTrope tab open in Firefox, woot!

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen

Around chapter 8 my main character has to decide whether or not to undo the events that led to the total annihilation of Austin, Chicago, Lima (Peru) and Vancouver/Seattle. It's harder than it sounds, okay?

Three hours and 20 tabs later, I return.

This happens every time I go on that site, but I feel so much more knowledgeable now! (except about things I might be tested on in school or having a midterm paper done on time...)

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Script Frenzy 2007: Winner! (Don't remember what it was called)
NaNoWriMo 2007: Untitled 22,185/20,000 Winner! (Help I need a title!)
NaNoWriMo 2008: Untitled Sequel - Winner!

That site is like crack. I discovered it after the last Nanowrimo. I'm totally using it.

I think this just about sums up a "normal" TV tropes session.

If I have money, I buy books, and if there is any left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

So I ignored everyone who was saying it would be addictive if I clicked on the link, and I clicked. I ended up on the Buffy page. I really should have known better than to click. But I know it won't be the last time xD

Augh! God, it has its own gravitational field! H...help - it's pulling me in! :O

But yeah, I love Tropes! It's fantastic, stumbling upon your fave (or least fave) series and watching it get torn apart. I wonder how many of our books will end up on there someday...

Lol wut?

Oh. Oh dear
I discovered this site last night.
"Just a quick look", that's what I told myself as I innocently clicked the link.
I was naive.
.. I didn't get to bed until 4am.
I regret nothing.

Goodbye, life!

Nano newbie! ;D
'09: Loophole In My Dreaming (working title. Boooo)

Ahh I did the same! O.o I managed to get to bed by 1:30 though...

Explosions: 3
Gunfights: 4
Deaths: 6
Villains: 6&1/2
Tables stolen: 0
People with secret identities: 9
Guns pointed in MC's face: 5
Ninjas: 0

That website helps me with English! ....at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

...well, it actually does, because if I translate trope names into standard English I can come up with insights during class discussions...

...my excuses are bad...