If you write stories, you owe it to yourself to become familiar with TVTropes, the great community-edited catalog of story devices. There's a staggering amount to be learned there about how stories have been told across a variety of different media. Spend enough time on TVTropes and you'll start to get a feel for the ancient formulas that undergird many of the stories we know and love. You'll understand how these tools can be used for good or for ill, and

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I'm writing this blog entry because I need to talk about what these stories mean to me and I don't have anyone else I can talk about this with.

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