Tropes: Thriller Tropes Workbook

Description

StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook

Tropes are tools—not formulas.

Conspiracy. Race Against Time. Unreliable Narrator. Manhunt. Hidden Identity. Betrayal. Cat and Mouse. Thriller readers may recognize the patterns. What matters is what those patterns do once the pressure starts. The StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook gives you 154 defined thriller tropes to explore—and a system for deciding what those tropes will actually do in your story.

• Which tropes create pressure?
• Which control who has information—and who doesn’t?
• Which isolate your protagonist or make someone impossible to trust?
• Which increase the threat, remove options, expose secrets, or turn an apparent victory into another problem?
• And which combinations keep changing what your protagonist risks, knows, believes, or must do next?

StoryMetric™ helps you move from naming tropes to using them intentionally.

Inside the StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook

Use the StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook to:

• Explore 154 defined thriller tropes and discover possibilities for your story
• Examine tropes by story function, not simply by name
• Explore combinations involving pressure, pursuit, survival, trust, betrayal, conspiracy, information, threat, isolation, technology, reversals, and escalating stakes
• Brainstorm and rank the trope choices with the greatest potential for your story
• Connect trope choices to your protagonist, antagonist, relationships, threats, secrets, resources, and choices
• Identify opportunities to twist, challenge, or subvert familiar thriller expectations
• Revisit your tropes during drafting and revision to determine whether they’re creating enough pressure and consequence

PRESSURE. CONSEQUENCE. CHOICE.

A thriller trope isn’t valuable simply because it sounds dangerous.

• Ask what it does to the crisis.
• What puts your protagonist under pressure?
• What happens if they fail?
• What information changes what they understand?
• Who or what takes away their safest option?
• And how does each choice create the next problem?

The StoryMetric™ approach helps you look beneath the familiar trope and examine the story mechanics it creates.

USE StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook YOUR WAY

TYPE directly into the fillable workbook.

PRINT it and complete the exercises by hand.

RETURN to it during planning, drafting, and revision as your story changes.

What You Receive

One StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook PDF

Your workbook is both:

FILLABLE — Type directly into applicable worksheet fields and use built-in dropdown selections where provided.

PRINTABLE — Print the workbook and complete the exercises by hand.

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Your purchase includes access to the digital workbook for 30 days, with up to 5 downloads.

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READY TO PUT YOUR THRILLER TROPES TO WORK?

You don’t need another list of thriller tropes. You need to know which tropes belong in your story, what pressure they create, and how they work together to escalate the consequences.

Explore 154 defined thriller tropes, discover combinations that excite you, and use the StoryMetric™ process to turn familiar patterns into a thriller that belongs to you.

StoryMetric™ Thriller Tropes Workbook
Printable + Fillable PDF | $16.99