Comments | primsong: I Write Like... well, maybe on occasion... with effort

primsong

I Write Like... well, maybe on occasion... with effort

Jul 12, 2010 17:58

Thanks to padawanpooh for sharing the love - this was fun, even if it obviously can't be taken too seriously. (her experiment with pasting in a bit of Dickens, which was declared to be much like Asimov was rather telling, *snicker ( Read more... )

writing, meme, lotr

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shirebound July 13 2010, 01:07:23 UTC

Oh, what a great result! *beams*

primsong July 13 2010, 01:26:10 UTC

*is happy* Hoorah for the Pr'fessor!

curuchamion July 13 2010, 15:23:49 UTC

ICON LOVE ♥

shirebound July 13 2010, 15:59:07 UTC

Thanks! :)

shiny_elfriend July 13 2010, 01:16:45 UTC

Yes, as a matter of fact, you do! I got Stephen King. Hmmm

primsong July 13 2010, 01:29:31 UTC

Interesting - I wonder what it is keying into? It isn't random - I tried going in and popping in bits from all over one long story and got a mix of two authors consistently (Twain if it was dialogue, Nabokov if it was descriptive)... I've only read one King novel, so my exposure to his style is vague at best. What piece did you put in?

shiny_elfriend July 13 2010, 01:50:39 UTC

My most recent one, a little ficlet message in a bottle musing whatsit.

Wow, Tolkien and Twain! It is definitely not random, they nailed it. I haven't read Nabakov in 20 years, so I can't really speak to that, lol.

I have only red King's "Eye of the Dragon" which was good, but I don't remember the style particularly.

primsong July 13 2010, 05:56:07 UTC

Likewise! That's the only novel he had that didn't look too creepy for my rather vivid imagination to handle. It was excellent, but it's been too many years since I picked it up to recall the elements that made it what it was.

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halavana July 13 2010, 01:21:20 UTC

I'll see that Tolkien, and raise you two Dan Browns and an Asimov. That was fun, Ada. :^D

primsong July 13 2010, 01:30:35 UTC

Isn't it? It makes me want to go back and try a few more to see who else surfaces.

halavana July 14 2010, 00:16:13 UTC

Weird. "To Snare an Elf" brought up Jack London. Weird.

livii July 13 2010, 03:21:06 UTC

Nabokov is the author of Lolita! I'd be thrilled to have my writing compared to his...

I played with this a bit, but it seemed very arbitrary. I did like the one where I got a comparison to P.G. Wodehouse! :)

primsong July 13 2010, 06:04:20 UTC

I just read the wiki page for Mr. Nabokov and their mention of his use of both word play and colors makes it make sense to me as I take those elements into account with any passages that run poetic and/or descriptive (though I'm sure not to his apparent level - he was one of those people who saw emotions, etc. as colors, wow...) It must have been picking up on all the emotional/color/texture references.

And Wodehouse! Woot for Wooster and co., one of my very faves, you are well complimented indeed by that one.

lin4gondor July 13 2010, 04:17:34 UTC

I couldn't get Tolkien, no matter what I tried! Even when I used a passage that used Boromir's name, I got Stephen King. *sigh* Guess I don't mind being compared to him, though...

primsong July 13 2010, 05:59:28 UTC

I wondered if it was keying into his character names - apparently it wasn't the telling ingredient... Mr. King has quite a following, though, in great part, I've been told, because he is "so readable" - certainly your work is that, and nicely done as well. :-)
*pats Lin's writing in admiration*

john_amend_all July 13 2010, 21:25:40 UTC

I experimented. Character names make a big difference.