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David Johnston  
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  More options Jul 9 2008, 1:08 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: David Johnston <da...@block.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:08:27 GMT
Local: Wed, Jul 9 2008 1:08 am
Subject: Re: Common First Author Mistakes - What are they, and are there SF speficic ones?
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:34:57 -0700, Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.comics>
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>On 2008-07-07 05:48:53 -0700, "David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)"
><dform...@usyd.edu.au> said:

>> The rest of the noval is no better.  There is no cliche left unused,
>> no plot twist left untelegraphed and few sentences unmolested by the
>> collar splice.

>What is a collar splice?

Sounds like a brainfart for comma splice.  

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