Ha! Well, my result said that I write like Margaret Atwood, and apparently Margaret Atwood's result said that she writes like...you! I don't know which is funnier--that Peggy got a result other than herself, or that she Twitters. Or tweets, or whatever the correct non-word verb would be for that inane activity.
And like you - I'm not sure whether it's hilarious that "they" think Margaret Atwood writes like Stephen King or that she twitters.
Actually - now that I think about it, I think the first is merely amusing, and the "hilarity" of the second part is more like, you know, laughing when you're nervous. Is the world, like...ending? *checks the sky*
I always loved reading Nabokov. I thought he was edgy-intellectual-cool; but I was always left with the impression that I probably didn't really get what he was saying.
having a brief peek at the post (I try to avoid blogs at work!) this part
so for my first batch, I chose animals from the class Mammalia: a bat for air, a stag for earth, a lion for fire, and a sea otter for water.
made me think - "Oh okay - I'm getting a hint of of Nabokov ". I'll have to look at it more thoroughly.
For myself, I pulled a few paragraphs from a post I did in my other LJ about saying goodbye - I assume it's the conversational tone of my writing that's pulling Stephen King - I always liked that about his writing so I'm quite chuffed. :D
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And like you - I'm not sure whether it's hilarious that "they" think Margaret Atwood writes like Stephen King or that she twitters.
Actually - now that I think about it, I think the first is merely amusing, and the "hilarity" of the second part is more like, you know, laughing when you're nervous. Is the world, like...ending? *checks the sky*
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Apparently, Ernest Hemingway writes like Stephen King, too. :-D
(I wonder how many authors they have in their "database")
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Well, five at least - Atwood, Austen, Nabokov, King, Hemingway. And either we're all derivative of them (and they of each other) or that's it! :D
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Did any of us? :D
How fun that you write like him. :)
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I tried an actual piece of prose writing that I did a few years ago, and it spit out Stephen King.
I should try some of the wiritng I did for the manuals at work and see what it says (heh).
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so for my first batch, I chose animals from the class Mammalia: a bat for air, a stag for earth, a lion for fire, and a sea otter for water.
made me think - "Oh okay - I'm getting a hint of of Nabokov ". I'll have to look at it more thoroughly.
For myself, I pulled a few paragraphs from a post I did in my other LJ about saying goodbye - I assume it's the conversational tone of my writing that's pulling Stephen King - I always liked that about his writing so I'm quite chuffed. :D
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