Clineian
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.
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!
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