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By Chelsea Hindle There’s something heart-wrenching about the friends to enemies trope. Over the course of a movie or book, we watch a pair of best friends as their relationship deteriorates until eventually they are archenemies. Some of the most famous characters in...

By Grace A. Johnson You’ve used tropes in every story you’ve ever dreamed up. That may seem like an exaggeration, but it’s true. Tropes are the fuel behind every good story, the foundation for every book. They’re the prompt or concept that makes itself clear before we...

By Sandrina de KlerkSiblings! I adore reading about them, I adore writing about them, and I love living with them (mostly, anyway). Sibling relationships in stories (and real life) have a wide range.  You can start with the pretty perfect family, all the way...