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One foggy evening, the Cliche intercepted a distress signal from a sinking novel: “Help us. The author has fallen into a trope singularity. Too many ‘chosen ones.’ Too many ‘it was all a dreams.’ Send tropes—no, send anti -tropes.”

The captain of the Author’s Block was a skeleton in a tweed jacket: “You can’t save them, Tropea. The author has used ‘reluctant hero,’ ‘mentor dies in act two,’ and ‘power of friendship’ fourteen times each. The story is collapsing into a black hole of cliché.” tv tropes pirates

Captain Tropea adjusted her eyepatch (a literal plot device that let her see narrative structure). “Crew, we’ve got a trope overload in Sector YA. Set course for the Sea of Subplots.” One foggy evening, the Cliche intercepted a distress

They sailed into a storm of redundancy. Lightning bolts were just deus ex machinas. Waves were rising action that never crested. And there, in the eye of the chaos, floated the Author’s Block , a ghost galleon manned by the spirits of abandoned story ideas. The author has used ‘reluctant hero,’ ‘mentor dies