#as someone who strives to trope overdose in unlikely places

[cookiecutterwrites]

There are 8x1067 possible ways to arrange a deck of cards. That’s 8 followed by 67 zeroes.

Don’t worry about being unoriginal because every trope, archetype, and plot has been done to death. Embrace the tropes! Stack them up the way 3D resin art doesn’t make sense until all the layers are in place.

Any story you might tell is a set of familiar plot elements in a novel arrangement, one that’s likely never existed before.

It’s not about the tropes themselves. It’s about the permutations.