$16.99
Bring the past to life with the StoryMetric™ Historical Fiction Tropes Workbook. Explore 249 entries across 17 subject groups, then use guided worksheets to connect historical events, family secrets, and social change to your characters’ choices.
This 26-page fillable PDF includes brainstorming prompts, rating dropdowns, and space for notes. Type directly into the workbook or print it to complete by hand.
Instant digital download • For personal use • No physical product
Description
StoryMetric™ Historical Fiction Tropes Workbook
Bring the past to life through personal struggles, changing worlds, and choices that echo through time.
The StoryMetric™ Historical Fiction Tropes Workbook helps you connect historical circumstances to the characters living through them. Explore 249 entries organized into 17 subject groups, with definitions and guided worksheets to help you choose, combine, and develop ideas for your story.
From family secrets and contested inheritances to wartime separations, migration, resistance, and recovered letters, discover patterns that connect public events to private lives.
What’s Inside
- Alphabetical trope library: Browse 249 entries covering tropes, character roles, themes, and narrative structures.
- Subject groupings: Find ideas related to family, class, work, faith, war, identity, historical discovery, and more.
- Brainstorming worksheets: Explore which patterns fit your characters, setting, and chosen period.
- Combining tropes and consequences: Examine how your selected ideas create conflict, difficult decisions, and lasting effects.
- Rating and application tables: Compare possibilities and connect your strongest choices to scenes, relationships, and character development.
- Notes and reflection spaces: Capture discoveries and plan your next steps.
Make History Personal
What does your character stand to lose when the world changes? Which laws, customs, beliefs, or loyalties shape their choices? What might a family preserve—or conceal—about its past?
Use this workbook alongside your historical research to develop possibilities grounded in a particular time and place. Whether you’re planning a new novel or developing an existing draft, the prompts help you move from an intriguing idea to its consequences for your characters.
Digital Download Details
- 26-page fillable PDF
- Type directly into the answer boxes, Notes spaces, and worksheet tables.
- Select ratings using 1–5 dropdown menus.
- Print the workbook if you prefer writing by hand.
- Digital product; no physical item will be shipped.
- For personal use only.
Created by Vanessa Riley, Ph.D., award-winning author and creator of StoryMetric™.
Discover the patterns. Explore the possibilities. Tell the lives behind the history.
