#WordWeavers 20. What tropes are in your current project?
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#WordWeavers 20. What tropes are in your current project?
there's enough fiction in the world that everything you can come up with is already a trope. i couldn't list them all, so i will pick one or two to explore.
light and dark motif: this is one of those age old tropes. the epigraph at the beginning of the book is a few lines from Gerard Manley-Hopkins' poem, 'Pied Beauty.' i also have a Virginia Woolf quote banging around in my brain, about the 'variegated' (contradictory) nature of humanity. in this context dappled things, variegated things, etc. represent both moral ambiguity and the variety of Creation; Lucifer's mix of 'light' and 'dark' attributes is, like in all beings, the signature of the God that made them. this is a subtle way of reminding us that Lucifer is God's creation too. so you see many scenes where light and darkness occur concurrently, and certain character pairings deliberately contrast light with darkness also.
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#WordWeavers 20. What tropes are in your current project?
there's enough fiction in the world that everything you can come up with is already a trope. i couldn't list them all, so i will pick one or two to explore.
light and dark motif: this is one of those age old tropes. the epigraph at the beginning of the book is a few lines from Gerard Manley-Hopkins' poem, 'Pied Beauty.' i also have a Virginia Woolf quote banging around in my brain, about the 'variegated' (contradictory) nature of humanity. in this context dappled things, variegated things, etc. represent both moral ambiguity and the variety of Creation; Lucifer's mix of 'light' and 'dark' attributes is, like in all beings, the signature of the God that made them. this is a subtle way of reminding us that Lucifer is God's creation too. so you see many scenes where light and darkness occur concurrently, and certain character pairings deliberately contrast light with darkness also.
another, simpler motif is that of the spiral. something spiral-shaped, or a spiral motion etc. is almost always present at pivotal moments in the book. i was thinking vaguely of sacred geometry; the significance is basically that the spiral is a signature of the universe.
(i did a ctrl+F on the word 'spiral' and this motif occurs exactly 13 times in the book. this is a coincidence but it pleases me to see such a fatal number.)
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