I ran across this today... Turkey City Lexicon . The page details lots of the terms that SF writers critique each other in.

If you've ever wanted to know what a "said-bookism" is, or what an "idiot plot" looked like, or what makes a story into a "steam-grommet factory"... well, this is your link. I found it very funny.

One quote:
Warning, there's a tiny bit of rough language in there towards the end (basically one use of the F word) (Just skip reading about "AM/FM").

PJ

LabRat

Cool! I gotta show this to my Dad.

In the meantime, it reminds me of TVTropes

Mary, that website is completely fascinating. I've already spent over an hour trawling through just the British TV section. This could get addictive. :rolleyes:

LabRat

Labby - what do you think Queenie does instead of writing?

*Swats at Carol* :p

BTW, Labby, I'm so sorry. I forgot to warn you: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife

Tremendously entertaining!

I got into the "literary tropes" section and spent a good fifteen minutes laughing about Unobtainium, Hand-Waving, Ass Pulls, and Applied Phlebotinum.

Unfortunately, I fear I've used all of these in my fics.