Check in: 21st April

[lullabymoon]

Hello everyone, I'll be hosting the check ins this week.

Has today been a good writing day for you?

Today I:
- wrote
- planned
- edited
- posted
- researched
- had a day off
- did something else

Today was:
- excellent
- average
- okay
- terrible
- I don't want to talk about it

Today's discussion topic:

I think I've talked about this before, but it is extremely relevant to me just now, and I know they can change over time so. Do you have a favourite trope right now? Care to share with us? If you do have one, do you like writing it as much as you do reading it or vice versa? 

Comments

[barbayat]

Sunday was even better than Saturday, wrote over 3600 words and made good progress.

I am not sure if I would say one particular trope applies to my writing but generally I am very attracted to bad guy/good girl romances.* Especially since I loathe the most common tropes associated with it (like love cures the bad guy or rape is love)

I seldom find fanfics involving my sub-trope (I guess there is some trope that covers it but I have not found it on tvtropes for example). If I stumbled upon one in my fandoms I am certain I would like to read it.

* It is not to be confused with the All Girls Want Bad Boys trope. Because that trope and I quote

All this, of course, glosses over the fact that bad boys are bad, meaning criminally inclined, not good as friends, probably not too mentally stable, potentially abusive/physically violent, might have trouble keeping a legal job, and will most likely be more interested in the physical (read:sexual) aspect of a relationship than anything else. He's also probably not going to be that concerned with fidelity, either.

I hate it when they gloss over these things, the fun is that the setting is not perfect but the issues are dealt with and often worked out.

[linaewen]

I spent quite a bit of time yesterday getting back into an extremely stalled WIP. I did some research and some thinking/planning, and made a few notes. This particular WIP could be finished up without too much work if I would just focus on it, so I think that's what I need to do! Even though I didn't write any new words for it yet, I feel good about the amount of time I spent immersed in it.

I imagine there are tropes that cover what I write, but I'm not sure which ones! I don't have a particular favorite that I like writing. I suppose the one that might apply the best to the WIP I'm trying to work on currently would be "childhood friends" -- my main character is trying to make a choice that will determine the course of his life and whether or not to follow his childhood friend is a significant part of that decision.