Tropes and Fiction Genres

This is an amazing and comprehensive listing of tropes for fiction.TV Tropes

Here's a useful chart of fiction genres. Chart of Fiction Genres

First Lines

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”

—Paul Auster, City of Glass

Links:

American Book Review: Best First Lines

Gawker's Fifty Best First Sentences

A History of Awkward Silence

My novel...

These are rough drawings of the cover.