Every time I tell someone I write horror, I feel compelled to add “but not like slasher horror.” Often I find it easiest to describe what something is not as a means of paring down to the thing’s essence. Why I feel the need to justify my writing as “not slasher” or “not too gory”…
Tag: tropes
Writing Romance: The Warrior Poet
The last romance hero archetype we’ll look at is the Warrior Poet. The website TVTropes says this about the WP, “He’s fought in a battle and is no slouch at war making, but he thinks about the purpose behind all the bloodshed and philosophizes on the meaning of life and death. Remember the last line…