Tropes in Genre: How to Respect and Reinvent the Wheel – Fall 2023

This class will explore the history of tropes and cliches and go over the most popular and successful examples of tropes in genre fiction. We’ll also take time to experiment with tropes of our own in a writing activity, testing a “vanilla” draft and a “reinvention” draft. Let’s improve and explore our work together!

Darian Bianco holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio and a certificate from the 2022-2023 Carnegie Center Author’s Academy, and her novel-in-progress Chatter was one of five winners for issue six of Novel Slices, to be published August 2023.

This class is suitable for beginners.

CANCELATION POLICY:

The Carnegie Center reserves the right to cancel a class if minimum enrollment is not met. It is best to register early to help our instructors prepare and to ensure the class does not get cancelled. We evaluate registration numbers 6–2 business days before a class starts to decide whether we can hold the class. Classes that do not meet minimum enrollment will be cancelled six–two business days prior to the first class meeting. All participants will be notified by email and will receive full refunds.