Don't use I Write Like

[beadattitude]

Point's to mecurtin's post.

Also, via nwhepcat, This excellent piece.

Sheesh, I KNEW there was something fishy about that thing. NO WAY do I write like Arthur Conon Doyle, Stephen King AND Douglas Adams.

Happy Saturday everybody.

ETA: To be clear, what I'm skeeved about is that

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Check the link below (hee!)

[nwhepcat]

Re: Check the link below (hee!)

[beadattitude]

HEE!

[mishloran]

...I don't get what's wrong with that? *confused* It's an advertising feature if you 'click here' (I doubt many people did?), whilst also being a fun lil' meme... or did I miss the point/misread that link?

[beadattitude]

I mind the not being in any way at all an actual analysis, but while I don't mind advertising, I do mind this:

I will also note that there's a "sign up for our awesome newsletter!" box on the side, which says that by doing so you can download FREE a "classic" book on writing by Charles Raymond Barrett -- a book which is, it *doesn't* tell you, also available at Project Gutenberg because it's from 1898.

That's just tacky.

[tesserae_]

Most of the issue is that all those links in peoples' blogs kick up the originating site's google rating, so a writer looking for a Christian press to submit work to or buy books from will end up at a scam vanity press. It's really a question of whose efforts you want to support, and vanity presses and Christian publishers are both on my list of personal no-nos, so this was useful for me to know...

[mishloran]

I have no idea what either of those things are. I guess publishing companies?

[tesserae_]

Signal boosting...

[beadattitude]

Thanks!

[beadattitude]

Well, no, but it became even tackier than I thought.