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7. I've thought of an alternate to the current sign-up scheme for the drawing that doesn't involve postcards, stamps and snail mail. I'll post about that tomorrow.
8. Over the last few weeks I've pinpointed a syntactical construction which bugs the hell out of me, and that I find mostly in romance novels. I love good romance, you realize, so this is in no way a condemnation of the genre as a whole, but it is a matter of some concern. To be brief (I'll go into more length tomorrow), there's a tendency toward this type of description:
her pink-tinted nails
Note the formula:
ARTICLE (possessive, definite or indefinite) +
ADJECTIVAL CONSTRUCTION (adjective + past participle) +
NOUN
There are some variations on this pattern. I'll look at them in greater detail, with examples, and maybe we can found some kind of support group for authors who have been seduced into this addictive habit.
October 4, 2005 04:56 PM
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