Michael Evans explains how to use story tropes like Enemies to Lovers deliberately in your creative work. Respect genre conventions so you don't mislead your audience, but you have flexibility as long as you deliver what the genre promises.
So I think, for example, enemies to lovers, everybody wants to talk about that with romance, and everybody wants to put it in their thing. And I always tell people, for the love of God, make sure you actually have an Enemies to lovers. If you're saying I have an Enemies to Lovers in my story, don't just put it in there because everybody has one, and then people get all upset. But that trope of Enemies to Lovers, we're seeing a lot in mystery. As lover. As Lovers to Enemies. So the two start out, and then all of a sudden, in the end, oh, he or she is a serial killer. You see that a lot. Or like the detective sleeping with the suspect and she turns out to be the killer or something like that. So I feel like it's really important to know what your genre is to work with the tropes. And we hadn't talked about that, but I don't. Keeping in mind, as long as you're keeping with the genre conventions, I think you can do a lot of different things with the tropes. So I can't really say that there's a trope that I wouldn't. That I don't think really works. It all just depends on. I like the gen.
