: Re: Can writing actually be creative? I've been pondering this a lot just now. After reading and learning about tropes online, rhetoric devices, and all relative things, it's come to my attention

@Kristi637

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A "trope" is a made-up buzzword that seeks to only explain the meta-process of writing, put simply.

Put in more details, the "trope" can be viewed as the meta-meta of the work -- the idea of the ideas of how the ideas are made. Trope -> Writer-> Work; Meta-> Meta-> Work. They exist to attempt to "define" a principle of writing when, of course, like anything, such principles are not always true, correct, or useful; instead, it's a tool of the information age -- to have information about information ... about information ... and so on. The trope isn't necessarily the cliche because it's believed to be the "start" of writing; the ground principles; the

It's supposed to be a tool, but the writing process doesn't need tools; it just needs something written, and if, however that thing may be written, it is not to be judged solely by a forthright, underlying method alone; it should be judged by the written work and how it's perceived ... not stripped by certain believed principles and factionalized as it's some sort of disseminated quantification of a larger puzzle.

Being specifically centered around ideas and storylines, it's just a way for people to categorize things; it's also for know-it-alls to like to feel they have control over what's dished on them on the TV or internet or game or book or whatever it may be. In other words, it's like the cloud computing fad where people believe that "the cloud" organizes and stores data conveniently for people to access it from anywhere, when data has been done so always and people have been accessing it the same way.

Look at it this way: If I can "know" what the writer is supposedly trying to get me to "know" or see, it's like meta-opinions; an opinion formed about the opinion formed of the person using the so-called "trope" that is based on the rhetoric or "capture method" used to engage or surprise an audience.

If I can guess what someone is attempting to get more to know, I am knowing about what's intended to be known -- a meta viewpoint -- which is seeking to see information about the information of a topic.

The reality? Don't always believe everything and everything isn't the same -- and categorizing data and making everything you see capable of being disseminated by limited rules makes life ... boring.

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