Nathan Lowell (he/him) on Nostr: Tropes need the genre expectation, and you can't get too far away from them without ...

Tropes need the genre expectation, and you can't get too far away from them without alienating the reader.

But it's sort of like knitting.

There are a lot of ways to use red yarn. You don't always need to knit mittens unless that's the only pattern you know.