New Writing Resource: A Character Type & Trope Thesaurus

In 2024, Becca and I began exploring character tropes and archetypes with one goal in mind: to create a resource that helps writers better use tropes by providing each one’s behaviors, strengths, flaws, tendencies, and more, so they could write characters with confidence.

But we also wanted our thesaurus to do something else too: make it easy for writers to transform a trope or archetype into a fresh, original character.

The Character Types and Tropes Thesaurus

This database is now at One Stop for Writers, home to our signature show-don’t-tell THESAURUS and other powerful storytelling tools. Covering 100+ tropes and types, you’ll find all the classic characters your readers are drawn to, including those Hot Billionaires, Reluctant Heroes, Rebels, and Femme Fatales.

Building a unique character and writing them with authority will be even easier with our lists of characterizing details. We’ve also queued up ideas for specific story complications that will challenge each character type, and listed out internal struggles to give them depth.

Ready to see a few characters found in this database? Try ANTIHERO, RULER, and HOPELESS ROMANTIC.

Celebrate with Us!

To explore the Character Type and Trope Thesaurus and test other tools at One Stop for Writers, start a free trial or grab this discount code: FINISHYOURBOOK to save 25% off a 6-month subscription.

To redeem this 25% discount:

1. Sign up or Sign in
2. Go to Account >> My Subscription and choose the 6-month plan
3. Enter your payment details
4. Add & activate the FINISHYOURBOOK code in the box provided. (You’ll see this one-time discount apply onscreen.)
5. Click the terms box, & hit subscribe!

Already a subscriber? Just add/activate this code in the space provided on the My Subscription page, and it will apply the discount to your next invoice. (If you are not currently on a 6-month plan, you’ll need to change to that plan after adding the code to your account.)

This code will be active until June 1st, 2025. Happy saving!

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