TV Tropes and Dramatica

First off, if you figure out a way to guarantee sales please report back here with your discovery!

I can only speak from experience, but EVERYTHING I’ve worked on in a professional capacity has never come back with extensive notes—nothing that would require a complete rewrite.

The only comment from the head of Disney TV at the time we sold Tangled was “can we make her hair magical?”—which, as you know, has nothing to do with structure.

Now, actually going through with the sale and navigating the waters of people’s personal preferences, their needs for production slates, and changes in the weather…not sure if a trope is going to help with that.

Tropes have no objective definition to them—they shift and morph for each person. One person’s Big Bad is another’s Shadow Enemy (or whatever non-sensical terms they’ve come up with). Why would you want to try and hit a subjective target?

How do you aim at opinion?

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