Authors, Kai Strand & LA Dragoni

This month #InkRipples is exploring the topic of literary tropes. For my post I’m going to use the Wikipedia definition of the word   trope   which has come to be used for describing commonly recurring   literary   and rhetorical devices,  motifs or clichés in creative works. It’s interesting to me that agents, publishers, other authors, and even readers call out for originality, yet tropes – like a story formula – are popular. Yes, walking that line between originality and familiarity can be very difficult. I asked a few of my super smart author friends what some of their favorite tropes are for both reading and writing. Editor and author coach and YA author,  Trish Wilkinson  likes the trope of the victorious underdog. She uses the trope in both fiction and nonfiction. Marie Harte – who knows her way around a spicy love story – loves the enemies to lovers trope. I admit, I do too. I discovered it in my late teens/early twent...