Tropes and Your Audience

My first panel at this year's Arisia.

Writers use tropes whether they intend to or not, because writers have to produce something that will be recognizable as a story.
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Faeries of Color: Tales of the Fae Beyond Europe

I was on this one.  The description was a little confused, because it seemed to operate on the assumption the fairy tales were tales about fairies.
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Magic Below The Stairs

Magic Below The Stairs by Caroline Stevermer
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When Truth is Stranger than Fiction

I was in the audience for this one.

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Fantasical Elements that Shouldn't Be Explained

I was in the audience for this one.

How much of your magic system do you explain?

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Foundlings and Orphans

I was on this one.

The many advantages of foundlings and orphans for storytellers.

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Retelling Fairytales

I was in the audience for this one.

What you do and do not do.

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Against the New Worlds Order

I was on this one.

The title's odd.  What it was about was whether planets would have single governments.

I mentioned in the introduction that there are aesthetic reasons to have a single government to clear clutter out of the way, but the panel concentrated on the centripedal and centrifugal forces.

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