 Romance/Love: December 01, 2021 Issue [#11096] |
This week: Romantic Tropes Edited by: PartyBee  
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens.
December is a busy month. We call it “Holiday Rush” at the Bard’s Hall. We put up holiday lights on our houses, decorate a Christmas tree, and bake cookies. Generosity infuses the season. I love buying and donating toys for local toy drives. The season is full of hope and love.
Christmas romances are very popular this time of year. Why? I think it all boils down to hope. Christmas and the holiday season is about hope and, well so is romance. When I started my research for this newsletter I was looking what was the appeal of holiday romances, but I struck upon another topic: Romantic Troupes.
So, what is a trope? Definitions include a figure of speech or a cliché. What is a cliché? Something that is overused or commonplace. So a romantic trope would be a romantic plot that is common or overused. Let’s take a look at some common romantic tropes.
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Tropes, in romances, are plots, characters or themes that are familiar to the reader. Keep in mind though, tropes aren’t necessary cliches. Clinches tend to be overused or common, but tropes are familiar to the reader. Romance readers who enjoy the happy ending and the conflict that leads up to the happy ending, enjoy reading similar stories. I remember when I first found romance, I enjoyed reading Jillian Hunter’s Boscastle series, about noble men in the 1800’s.
Here’s some common tropes:
1. Two people who barely/hardly know each other, are forced to share an enclosed space. Example, stuck overnight in a cabin due to a winter storm.
2. The fake relationship. Two people pretend to be in a relationship and then actually fall in love. One of my favorite stories here was from General Hospital when Holly and Robert fell in love. (mid 80’s.)
3. Enemies becomes lovers
4. The protagonist loses what they overlook. My Fair Lady.
5. Childhood friends become lovers.
6. Cinderella –One is secretly rich and the other is poor.
7. 2nd Chance at Love.
8. Forbidden Love – think Romeo and Juliet.
9. Accidental Pregnancy turns to love.
10. Falling in love during the holidays
11. Time Travel – think Outlander
12. Women in peril
13. One is royalty and one isn’t.
There are more tropes as well. What makes them popular and familiar to the reader who wants to read more and more is the unique spin every author gives the trope.
What are some of your favorite tropes?
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FEEDBACK from my Romance/Love Newsletter Dated: 03 NOV 2021
Princess Megan Rose  
I adore romance and I write a lot of Regency Romance, Downton Abbey type stories. I enjoyed this newsletter and Napoleon was quite a romantic. Beethoven. Shakespeare. They were romantic as well. Love letters say it all. We all have enjoyed writing romance letters and getting them. I finally threw out my love notes and letters from boys and I have been married forever! Romance all down the ages lives on and I am a hopeless romantic. Great Newsletter and there is nothing like being in love when it's new and it matures over time. Here's to romance. Thanks for writing this romance newsletter.
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