Keira's World

There is nothing more rewarding as a reader than when your favorite character gets to say exactly what you always wished they would in canon. It's a moment of vindication like no other, really, and we're going to talk about it tonight.Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/

The time travel trope is easily the most popular trope in fan fiction. To fandom, time travel is the ultimate way to fix a canon event that they can't tolerate. We're going to talk about it.Lay Down Your Sweet And Weary Headhttp://archiveofourown.org/works/938431 The Time Meddlershttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/4061219/1/The-Time-Meddlers The Reunionhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655545/1/Reunion Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/

Legessa asked a super long question that wouldn't fit in the box. Here's the TLDR  part:So now it comes down to it. Can what the reader has previously known as a secondary character lead a story without having to evolve to someone that is almost unknown, or was this a case of an author who focused so much on the plot being explained that everything else fell to the wayside to get there?Whole comment: http://keiramarcos.com/ask-me-anything/comment-page-3/#comment-32485Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/

The "misunderstanding" is one of the easiest tropes to insert into your fic because humans don't communicate well with other and most of our favorite characters are emotionally contispiated, broody assholes who avoid discussing anything remotely important.It creates instant conflict and can drive the plot.It can also be annoying as all fuck when done badly or you're left wondering how the hell the situation that the author has chosen is even remotely possible between two people who speak the same language.We'll discuss this.Chatroom on my site: http://www.keiramarcos.com

There is rarely anything more satisfying than as a fix-it fic when you're a fanfic writer. Righting what once went wrong Sam Beckett style is never going to get old. Tonight we'll discuss the tropes associated with Fix-Its and our favorite fix-it stories. Chatroom on my site!www.keiramarcos.com

Secrets are a common trope, plot device, or world building element. Big secret, dark secret, secret identity, secret world, secret powers, dangerous secret, secret admirer, secret keeper, and so on. If you’re a writer, eventually you’re going to deal with secrets—whether you work with secrets on a small scale or large one. A look at how secrets can be used in your plot/world building for good and bad, and possibly new ways to approach the classic trope. Also, looking one of the more satisfying elements of the big secret trope: The Reveal.Chatroom on my site:http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/

My favorite tropes in HP and theoretical twists on them.Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/ Crack Time Travel (sort of Harem fic): https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655545/1/Reunion

From K: Hi, I was wondering if, in honor of Sept 8th being Star Trek Day, you would consider devoting a podcast to your Trek fics (including your Evil Author Day snippet of Instinct - which I adore) and maybe do a Trope Drift about Trek fics in general. And maybe offer some good Trek fics to read, as I haven't been the luckiest in finding good fics in that fandom.Tangled Destinies is my number one comfort fic to read. Jim and Spock's gentleness with each other contrasted against the harshness of the events happening to them directly and around them is so wonderful to read. Their gentleness and their protection of each other makes the part where Jim is forced to experience Pon Farr without Spock so much more effective and heart wrenching. Is that kind of reaction something you planned from the beginning? Or was it an accidental byproduct of how you wrote Jim and Spock?Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/Link:http://kyliselle.livejournal.com/4014.htmlhttp://kyliselle.livejournal.com/5392.htmlhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/5344838/1/Atlashttp://archiveofourown.org/series/2522 http://archiveofourown.org/series/5176 https://archiveofourown.org/works/844797

Tonight we're going to take a trope, twist it up and set it loose sort of like a plot drift.If this podcast inspires you to write a story, make sure to link to the podcast when you give credit.You do not have permission to use any specific plot elements we discuss. Chatroom on my site:  http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/

"A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize." - TV TropesProbably nothing inspires more writers in fandom than a trope -- Sentinel AUs, A/B/O, Time Travel, Independent Characters, Soulmate AUs, Fix-It, Alternate Realities, Shifters, Daemons, etc. Tropes are essentially fandom fuel. We're going to talk about them tonight and ways to make them new.Chatroom on my site: http://keiramarcos.com/chat-room/