Trope & Genre Finder

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Trope Finder analyzes your manuscript to identify the tropes, themes, and genre patterns that define your story so you can write and market with clarity.

Discover the hidden storytelling patterns that shape your book.

Most authors use tropes without realizing it. These recurring story elements, like The Chosen One or Enemies to Lovers, set reader expectations, shape emotion, and define genre. Trope Finder helps you uncover which tropes drive your story so you can use them intentionally, avoid clichés, and better position your book for readers.

When you upload your manuscript, the tool generates:

• 24+ Identified Tropes with explanations and in-text evidence.
• A Trope Heatmap grouping tropes by character, plot, setting, relationship, and meta categories.
• A Genre Alignment Score showing how closely your story fits or subverts genre expectations.
• Comparable Titles and Themes to guide positioning, marketing, and audience targeting.

You will walk away with a clear understanding of your story’s literary DNA — what makes it resonate, what makes it unique, and how to talk about it effectively.

Readers connect to stories through familiar emotional patterns. Trope Finder helps you see and control those patterns instead of stumbling into them. By mapping your manuscript’s underlying tropes, it gives you a professional edge in editing, marketing, and audience positioning — the same analytical clarity major publishers use when evaluating manuscripts.

Use It To

• Identify which tropes your story actually uses.
• Spot clichés, overused patterns, and opportunities for innovation.
• Compare your book’s structure to top titles in your genre.
• Improve your blurb, ad copy, and reader targeting language.

Looking to refine your story further? Try pairing Trope Finder with Reader Profiler to identify potential readers or Ad Drafter to turn your newfound tropes into scroll-stopping ads.

FAQ

What is Trope Finder? Trope Finder is a literary analysis tool that identifies the storytelling tropes and themes within your manuscript.

Who should use this tool? Authors, editors, and marketers who want to understand how a story fits within its genre or how to describe it more effectively to readers.

What does it create or check for? It lists at least 24 tropes with supporting evidence, groups them into categories with a heatmap, assigns a genre alignment score, and surfaces comparable titles and key themes.

How does it help authors? It helps you see your story the way readers and marketers do — clarifying tone, genre, and appeal so you can edit or promote it more effectively.

What happens with my data or file? Your manuscript is analyzed only for this session. Files are not stored or shared beyond the analysis process.

Is it free to use? Trope Finder is available exclusively to Author Media patrons inside the Patron Toolbox.