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Ten Things I Hate About Your Book
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Soon to be available in paperback
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Character Description Oh, those beautiful green eyes
Scarlett Johansson, her latest movie "He’s Just Not That into You"
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Punctuation Hey guess what I'm writing in a new style no commas
Bad punctuation on tombstone
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Speech Tags "I will write in any style I want," he warned. "I hope you do," she urged
Couple engaged in active dialogue
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Foreshadowing "Yes, I think foreshadowing is defined as walking down the street with the sun at your back"
Woman's shadow on pavement
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Loose Ends How many subplots did you say you have? Only fourteen?
Interwoven subplots with a few loose ends
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Hackneyed Expressions I do like Shakespeare, but he used so many clichés
William Shakespeare book cover from 1617
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Adverbs! When you see an adverb, kill it, as Mark Twain liked to say
Girl with machine gun
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Point Of View This head-hoping is great, he thought. Hmm, she said to herself, I wonder if he's thinking of POV ping-pong
Matterhorn mountain reflected in a lake
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Syntatical Structure Grammar? That's so yesterday. But, whatever
Bad grammar on cake
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Spelling I like to envent new words
Misspelled stop sign
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The writer butts in Author Intrusion
Obama and Sarkozy agree on one thing
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Written by Ariion Kathleen Brindley
Available soon in paperback
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