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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... )

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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.

curuchamion July 13 2010, 15:23:16 UTC

I'm guessing it analyses word choice and sentence structure. Most of my MFU dialogue pieces came out Stephen King, the more "atmospheric" ones were Dan Brown, but when I put in some of my nonfiction rambles - which of course are closer to my natural inside-my-head style, not tweaked for artisticness - I got Lovecraft and Bradbury. And an original fic from a few years back came out with a result of Edgar Allan Poe!

(Hmm. I think maybe I need to step back from fandom if that's what it's doing to my writing voice, turning it into a Stephen King/Dan Brown cross. I don't want to sound like a generic modern thriller.)

The meme does know what it's talking about re: you and Tolkien, btw... I just had to type in a random passage from FotR to test, and sure enough it nailed it! ;-)

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