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the_deep_magicSo I finally got around to doing that "I Write Like" meme, just to see if I got any consistency at all. Twenty-five different writing samples (all from fics) yielded 10 different authors, though Stephen King and David Foster Wallace showed up much more often than any of the others at 8 and 7 times, respectively. Which is a bit funny, since I love Stephen King but, God help me, I cannot get through an entire D.F. Wallace book to save my life. Not even the ones of reasonable-length, and I almost never give up reading a book in the middle. I even made it through American Psycho, even though I was by turns horribly nauseated and astoundingly bored. But now is not the time for my Why Does Everyone Think Bret Easton Ellis is So Fucking Great, He Is Average at Best and None of His Characters Are Remotely Likeable rant.
Interestingly, I got almost entirely contemporary authors -- Jack London and Nabokov each showed up once and Raymond Chandler twice, but everyone else I got was/is alive and writing during my lifetime. I don't know exactly which criteria the generator uses, but I'm not entirely surprised. I use a lot of short paragraphs and a ton of dialogue and don't engage in a whole lot of description, so maybe that has something to do with it. I did get Stephenie Meyer twice and Dan Brown once. I haven't read any of the Twilight books, so I don't know what Meyer's actual writing is like -- should I be worried? As for the Dan Brown... well, let's just call that a total anomaly, shall we?
I've got another Nina-verse fic just about finished. I was going to wait and post it right after the humiliation fic to balance out the nasty with schmoop, but the nasty just isn't coming together. Possibly because it's (go ahead and get your pearls clutch-ready) ZQ/Jeremy Irons with only background Pinto, and after the initial idea, my brain is now attempting to reject it. Which one of you Jeremy-Irons-loving bastards has been hacking into my dreams? Anyway, I might just go ahead and post the schmoop.
Wow, this post had more hostility in it than I'd originally intended. I would like to hereby apologize to: Jeremy Irons, the estate of David Foster Wallace, fans of Bret Easton Ellis (even though you are woefully misguided, I still love you), and people who have not yet seen Inception. Dan Brown can go jump in a lake and see if his piles and piles of hundred-dollar bills save him from the ravenous alligators. THEY DON'T EAT MONEY, DANIEL. YOU ARE STILL MADE OF MEAT LIKE THE REST OF US.
Interestingly, I got almost entirely contemporary authors -- Jack London and Nabokov each showed up once and Raymond Chandler twice, but everyone else I got was/is alive and writing during my lifetime. I don't know exactly which criteria the generator uses, but I'm not entirely surprised. I use a lot of short paragraphs and a ton of dialogue and don't engage in a whole lot of description, so maybe that has something to do with it. I did get Stephenie Meyer twice and Dan Brown once. I haven't read any of the Twilight books, so I don't know what Meyer's actual writing is like -- should I be worried? As for the Dan Brown... well, let's just call that a total anomaly, shall we?
I've got another Nina-verse fic just about finished. I was going to wait and post it right after the humiliation fic to balance out the nasty with schmoop, but the nasty just isn't coming together. Possibly because it's (go ahead and get your pearls clutch-ready) ZQ/Jeremy Irons with only background Pinto, and after the initial idea, my brain is now attempting to reject it. Which one of you Jeremy-Irons-loving bastards has been hacking into my dreams? Anyway, I might just go ahead and post the schmoop.
Wow, this post had more hostility in it than I'd originally intended. I would like to hereby apologize to: Jeremy Irons, the estate of David Foster Wallace, fans of Bret Easton Ellis (even though you are woefully misguided, I still love you), and people who have not yet seen Inception. Dan Brown can go jump in a lake and see if his piles and piles of hundred-dollar bills save him from the ravenous alligators. THEY DON'T EAT MONEY, DANIEL. YOU ARE STILL MADE OF MEAT LIKE THE REST OF US.
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:39 am (UTC)HOW CAN WE EVER BE CLOSE WITH ALL THAT SEPARATES US? D:
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Date: 2010-07-18 02:00 am (UTC)I do actually like Jeremy Irons, and I feel kinda bad about writing him as a bastard, but it suits my purposes. If I can ever get the fic together, that is...
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:10 am (UTC)I haven't read them myself (though I LOVE the movies, which is wrong enough lol), but I've heard a few excerpts and they usually pain me. :-P haha!
I also cannot get through DFW's books. Granted, my professor tried to make us read Infinite Jest in about 6 weeks... so that might be why I can't even begin to think about tackling that monster... lol!
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Date: 2010-07-18 02:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-18 02:18 am (UTC)And, yes! My professor was clearly on drugs of some kind. I got to page 83 and then gave up, lol! I was a champion BSer that semester when we had to talk about it in blogs and in class! ;-)
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Date: 2010-07-18 06:00 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2010-07-19 03:21 am (UTC)