What type of tropes do you avoid as a writter. (sub to me and ill sub to you)

[aquashark]

I agree with this and this brings up mushoku tensei again. The characters are all flawed in one way or another and thats what makes the story flow so well. I also love when an author knows how to end a story with achneledgement. If you look at most finished anime/manga that are popular you find it somewhat often. Especialy within series like tokyo ghoul (the manga only of course) and attack on titan.

[sophialyn]

The only option is murder.
BUT I AGREE! I love friendships I WANT FRIENDSHIPS

[EncryptedWriting]

Just a reminder to all creators that using tropes is not bad! It does not make you unoriginal.

Tropes I avoid are blissful ignorance for my main characters. Anastasia is often seen as the damsel in distress but she is very book smart and is able to defend herself so be it. She can fight, and she can determine different dangers within different kingdoms. She is very head smart, and that's how I wanted her to be because while she needs a knight and all that, she is still able to be independent.

The other trope I avoid revolves around men and women only being able to be partners. It is very common to see stories where a man and a woman only see each other romantically. I wanted to make it clear that it is okay to be romantically interested, but your entire connection with a person does NOT have to be romantic. It can be platonic.

The last trope I am thinking of is with females having a perfect, small body. I really wanted to have inclusivity, and one thing I take pride is with Evangeline being muscular and having a lot of scars. Her scars are a story for her and she likes to show them off. She takes pride in her body even if it isn't super petite. Again, not saying that having a petite body is a specific trope, and it is totally okay to have someone be that way. It just is not for me.

[aquashark]

true but i still stay clear of them. I feel steering away from the steroetypes is a good way to make your novel as a hole stand out.

As for not being romantic and having friendly females i feel its conceptualy had to write for some people because they have only ever understand man and woman as sexual partners. Its kind of upsetting but in a way it does add some realism to things. Allthough id like to see more stories with female and male friends

small females are also an annoying trope for me and i understand steering away from them. The only times i go for a slim and small woman is when im giving them a flawed personality to counteract it. My main female side character in Echoes of the abyss is exactly that type of woman. She has a small body and is slim, almost depicting her as an angel or some kind of saviour but she is completely reluctant to fight and due to that she ends up putting the main character in harms way multiple times.

[WildMoonCrow]

I don’t really go out of my wait to avoid any tropes in particular, I kind of just accidentally fall into tropes as I write That being said, I don’t really vibe with the whole isekai trope, the alpha/omega trope, or the billionaire trope, or a lot of toxic romance tropes. (I kind of write what I enjoy reading myself)
Though I think as long as you enjoy your writing then it doesn’t really matter, there will always be someone that dislikes the particular trope you write, and there will be people that love it. :3

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[aquashark]

isekai is deffinately an annoying trope thats overused. Some novelists can write isekai really well but most of the time its never realistic and makes the reader question the morals of the character 99% of the time. Mostly because every sinlge person that gets isekai'ed is just like "oh alright" then just carries on ith their life.

Alpha/omega tropes i feel are a bit disgusting. I wont actively speak my mind against them and i have no problem with people writting them since that is their own descision but the idea that dominance is a must have of every single character is honestly just annoying. It feels like all of the characters are the same person but with a different personality and way of speaking and most of the time the characters are written with more sexual appeal in mind then actual personality.

Billionare tropes arent too bad to be fare but it really just depends on how they are written. I love tropes were the billionare loses everything and is forced into a normal world were they cant solve things by throwing money at it or tropes were the billionare is a generaly disciplined human being and doesnt actively put down others due to having more money. However when the billionare in question is snobby, puts other people down because of their social standing and then throws all of their money at their problems expecting everything to be solved just like that.