Snowflake Challenge
I've missed several challenges, but this one was interesting.
Challenge #12
In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I don’t usually do memes but I saw this on the list and it appealed so thought I’d give it a go.
I write like
Paste a few paragraphs of your writing into the box and see which famous author has a style most similar to you. It doesn’t have to be actual fic writing; you can post your latest blog post, but the longer, the better the tool works
As I often change my style of writing to suit the particular story/setting I decided to use three different fics, and came up with three different famous authors I write like, which is quite an achievement - I think.
No. 1: Shadows on the Wall
This is a short piece I wrote for The Professionals a while ago:
In which:
I must admit to be quite happy with the comparison because like his work or not he is a brilliant writer.
No. 2: Prey
An AU fic written for the Lewis_Challenge Fright Fest, a vampire hunter tale set in Victorian England
In which:
Happy with this one too, I must have got the atmosphere right somewhere there.
No. 3: This one is an excerpt from my current WIP:
Outside the station house the air was so heavily laden with the noise and smell of oil and steam from passing carriages as well as the perfume of overcooked fish that it set James’s eyes to watering at the sting of it, whilst the merchant ships and passenger liners ghosting overhead added more effluence to the general fog. He was about to lower his aviator goggles, but the possibility of Lewis’s arch look made him hesitate. He wiped his hand across his face instead and pulled his top hat down a little in an effort to cut off some of the miasma. It wasn’t at all surprising when Lewis started walking briskly along the street. No steam powered carriage for the Inspector. James wondered briefly what chance he stood of persuading the man towards more acceptance of modern technology in their investigation than he had displayed thus far. He thought it would be interesting to find out.
With that thought in mind he measured his pace to that of his new superior and allowed himself to be led through the twisting turns of Oxford city, past the butcher shops, the grocery shops and hatters, then the colleges until they reached the promised boarding house, a neat and tidy double story townhouse on a quiet street that wasn’t, after all, very far from the station house.
In which:
I’ve never heard of this writer before but he seems quite famous, so now I’ll have to find his books and read them!
On an aside, a Snowflake Challenge seems oddly inappropriate in the Southern Hemisphere at the moment, especially as it’s currently 42deg Celsius.
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