becca syme

Becca Syme (MATL) is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and has been coaching success alignment for more than a decade. She is the author of the Quitbooks for Writers series and the popular Write Better-Faster course. She also writes mystery novels in her spare time and lives on one of the thousand lakes in Minnesota.

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SUNDAY 18 AUGUST 2024
Ballroom 2 | 2.15pm - 3.45pm

Trope-tastic

If you've ever seen a meme that nailed you, or heard a story that made you feel something, you've experienced trope. But a lot like oxygen, or like the system of personality, the reasons for resonance are often invisible.

In this workshop, Becca will use the framework of personality collation to explain how tropes work and why they are effective (or not effective) in storytelling.

We will cover the three types of tropes and the difference in construction with each type. And, of course... whether or not you should write to trope...

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