Comments | the_improbable1: Fun with I Write Like

the_improbable1

Fun with I Write Like

Mar 18, 2012 15:01

I was reminded earlier of this super-interesting program and decided-why not put everything I've ever written through the bloody thing? :D

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just ignore my rambling, real life, seriously just ignore me, books are cool, bored bored bored bored bored, what is this i don't even, reading is awesome, irrelevant, brilliant, html is troublesome, fandom is a time sink, this is madness

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akikotree March 18 2012, 23:02:55 UTC

Chuck Palahnuik has writen loads of books, but the only one I have read is "Fight Club" (the movie of the same name, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, is based of his book). Its a really good book, very trippy, and extremely violent. That's odd about Douglas Adams- he only writes comedy! Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and poet who lived in France and did most of her writing in the early 1900s.

Lol, apparently you write like about 12 different people!

the_improbable1 March 18 2012, 23:25:41 UTC

Thanks for the author help! :D

Apparently I do! Very weird, but not entirely unexpected-my writing style does tend to shift around a lot.

astapez March 19 2012, 23:11:33 UTC

it's weird how schizophrenic writing makes you look, until you think about it for a second, and then you're like "yeah, that makes sense."

I Write Like has got me to read a couple of Lovecraft's stories, and it's so uncannily similar to my own writing style that I'm still WTFing over it.

the_improbable1 March 20 2012, 02:26:56 UTC

Well, if you think about it, when you write, you're letting another character have control over what plops out onto the page. A lot of authors complain about how their characters fight them - I had that particular problem during NaNoWriMo, with things going completely differently from how I wanted them to. ^-^;;

I don't think I'll read the stuff of any of the authors I got that I haven't already read...

astapez March 20 2012, 21:31:01 UTC

Reading more stuff is one of those things I think you kind of have to want to do, to have dependably good results. Otherwise you end up on LiveJournal when you're supposed to be reading your history textbook. XD

I read a little of Lovecraft's work because a lot of people here in the Holmes fandom have also read Lovecraft (and reference him a lot), and the Cthultu mythos has a shows up a lot in geek culture (it's just been popular fodder for internet memes, lately.) So I decided it was high time I checked him out, because he seems to be a pretty cool guy. And he is- though I don't think I'm ever going to get around to reading his more creepy installments like The Call of Cthultu, just like I don't really want to read Stephen King's creepy shit. I prefer my insanity to not make me lie awake at night full of terror, haha!