I totally do.
This is fun, find out who you write like:
For my novel I get Robert Foster Wallace (shrug) whoever he is. My short story gets William Gibson which is awesome.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 12:59:39 pm PDT #3483 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2010 2:43:36 pm PDT #3484 of 6719
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently that I Write Like tool is just a page hit generator that doesn't actually do anything in the background.
Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 5:19:56 pm PDT #3485 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping
Hmm... I never thought it was something to be taken seriously, but there's a little thing on how it supposedly works (basically like a spam filter).
Topic!Cindy - Aug 05, 2010 8:21:03 pm PDT #3486 of 6719
What is even happening?
I did that a week or two ago. When I pasted a Lost recap into that, I got Joyce, which is way too apt for a page hit generator (not that I'm anything approaching Joyce, but the nature of recapping + the nature of Lost is very Joycian). When I pasted fic into it, I got Atwood (Buffy fic) and the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I'm too lazy to Google (VM fic). I understand Atwood got Stephen King, which tickles me.
eta the reason I really posted
This morning, I had to run to the store really early. I saw a man and he spawned a whole book in my head (not like that; he wasn't particularly hot or anything). I'm going to sleep now and am praying I get a Stephanie Meyer-esque dream of the whole damn story, because thinking is hard. Heck, learning enough about my Macbook to set up the document was hard enough.
Amy - Aug 06, 2010 7:34:02 am PDT #3487 of 6719
Because books.
Hey, Cindy, did you ever get the email I sent?
Topic!Cindy - Aug 06, 2010 1:26:05 pm PDT #3488 of 6719
What is even happening?
Oh Amy, I did and totally spaced on it. I'll reply right now. Thank you!
Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2010 5:15:24 am PDT #3489 of 6719
hwæt
Mass romance novel publisher going all in on e-books
Dorchester Publishing, which describes itself as the "oldest independent mass market publisher in America," has decided to ditch its mass printing business to go digital- and print-on-demand only.
Gudanov - Aug 09, 2010 5:41:05 am PDT #3490 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping
One more chapter left to take the word cutting scalpel to though I might end up neutral on word count do to some changes that come from -t's comments.
Then the short epilogue which won't change and I'm done again!
After that, back to the last round of revisions, save for a final go through to fix grammar, punctuation, and typos.
Barb - Aug 09, 2010 7:53:54 am PDT #3491 of 6719
“Not dead yet!”
Mass romance novel publisher going all in on e-books
The whole thing is a cock-up of monumental proportions. They sold all of their best authors to Avon in January, they've been behind on payments to authors for years. This is just last-ditch and if they survive the year, I'll be shocked.
They really should have declared Chapter 11 over a year ago and reorganized.
Amy - Aug 09, 2010 7:54:42 am PDT #3492 of 6719
Because books.
Dorchester has always been more than a little shady, yeah.