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A style of bad writing particular to Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, typically involving immediately backpedaling on plot, effectively destroying any potential tension or character development in your story.
A word coined by the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back.

He spent a whole chapter setting up this fight scene and then just said "I won easily." It's so Clineian of him to just skip important stuff like that!

Clineian by Timmyn8or September 8, 2020

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Clineian

A type of writing error commonly made by Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, where you immediately backpedal on plot, effectively destroying any potential tension or character development in your story.
A word coined by the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back.

He spent a whole chapter setting up this fight scene and then just said "I won easily." It's so Clineian of him to just skip important stuff like that!

Clineian by Timmyn8or September 8, 2020

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