: 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

@Tiffany377

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Tropes exist ... the same way internet memes exist; UFOs exist; paranormal activity exists; and the boogeyman exists too. The fact is, ground rules are usually established under some sort of pretense that they'll help in the making or recording of a trade or category. The real issue is, some things are really hard to have "rules" because they can be very hard to be brought back to some sort of "initiation phase" or starting point. Writing is one thing that's very hard to "rule" because anybody could come up with something creative and it doesn't have to be deduced to any principal or standard for people to just "like it." You can take examples in those "dumb" parody films that the majority seem to hate, but an established amount of people still seem to take interest in and profit the low-end quality for more films.

Also, take examples at laws in many countries and how vague some things actually can be.

The real problem is, the more complicated and unspecific something can be, the harder it is to carry it back to some sort of starting point. Try reverse engineering quantum mechanics with string theory, or convert a Hanzi script sentence to Latin scripture by hand without reference. Writing, being an art, is also much harder to take back to an established principal since art is not necessarily built from anything which can be taken apart easily, much like, say, a tower of blocks or a deck of cards.

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