Ten Things I Hate About Your Book

by

Ariion Kathleen Brindley

Ten Things I Hate About Your Book

Soon to be available in paperback

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Bullet Character Description Oh, those beautiful green eyes

Scarlett Johansson movie actress

Scarlett Johansson, her latest movie "He’s Just Not That into You"

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Bullet Punctuation Hey guess what I'm writing in a new style no commas



Bad punctuation on tombstone

Bad punctuation on tombstone

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Bullet Speech Tags "I will write in any style I want," he warned. "I hope you do," she urged



Couple engaged in animated dialogue

Couple engaged in active dialogue

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Bullet Foreshadowing "Yes, I think foreshadowing is defined as walking down the street with the sun at your back"



Woman

Woman's shadow on pavement

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Bullet Loose Ends How many subplots did you say you have? Only fourteen?



Loose ends ball of yarn

Interwoven subplots with a few loose ends

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Bullet Hackneyed Expressions I do like Shakespeare, but he used so many clichés



William Shakespeare book cover from 1617

William Shakespeare book cover from 1617

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Bullet Adverbs! When you see an adverb, kill it, as Mark Twain liked to say



Girl with machinegun

Girl with machine gun

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BulletPoint 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

Matterhorn mountain reflected in a lake

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Bullet Syntatical Structure Grammar? That's so yesterday. But, whatever



Bad grammar on cake

Bad grammar on cake

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Bullet Spelling I like to envent new words


Misspelled stop sign

Misspelled stop sign

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Bullet The writer butts in Author Intrusion


Obama and Sarkozy agree on one thing

Obama and Sarkozy agree on one thing

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Written by Ariion Kathleen Brindley

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