Steven Thiele

The Wise Old Mentor is one of the pinnacles of Fantasy tropes. They are the people who show up at our farm boy hero's front door,...

Perhaps one of the most common and hated tropes in fiction. Across all forms of media, we've all seen the Chosen One. They’re rampant....

The enemies to lovers trope has been growing in recent years in literature, and it’s a very powerful tool and an interesting way of...

As a storyteller, I come across tropes and clichés a lot of the time. Eventually, I decided to break some down and see why we like it or...