Apparently that I Write Like tool is just a page hit generator that doesn't actually do anything in the background.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
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.
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2010 2:43:36 pm PDT #3484 of 6693
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 5:19:56 pm PDT #3485 of 6693
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 6693
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 6693
Because books.
Hey, Cindy, did you ever get the email I sent?
Topic!Cindy - Aug 06, 2010 1:26:05 pm PDT #3488 of 6693
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 6693
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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 6693
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 6693
“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 6693
Because books.
Dorchester has always been more than a little shady, yeah.
Barb - Aug 09, 2010 8:12:46 am PDT #3493 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
Yeah, they seriously put the skeeve in skeevy. I mean, I've had three agents and all three refused to submit to them on principle. That tells me a lot