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This actually fits with Tim’s description of my “invisible writing“, and although I’m not a fan of Stephen King I do happen to like the way he writes. I also thought that his book On Writing was very good. I read it back when I was hoping to finish my novel … ah well.
How about you?
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I apparently write like someone called David Foster Wallace and if I can slow down a little more, I figure I will get hold of one of his books. Different writing samples give me different results but he keeps coming back.
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PS. Cough up that novel, dang it!
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I got David Foster Wallace too.
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And again for David Foster Wallace
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I don’t write very much (I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words, I tend to ramble on a bit) so I copied my reply to your Blushing blog and I, too, got David Foster Wallace.
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I seem to have a multiple personality disorder when it comes to writing style. I’m variously:
Dan Brown (no-no-no!)
Cory Docterow ( never heard of this author but might check them out)
James Joyce ( that must’ve been the exerpt with a lot of swearing)
Leo Tolstoy ( that must’ve been the verrrrrry long extract)
Margaret Atwood (quite pleased about that one)
David Foster Wallace (someone else I haven’t met)
And Stephen King (I don;t think I’ve ever read on of his books)
It appears I don’t really have a distinctive style of my own.
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Like most people, I tried out several texts and the names that came up most were Stephen King and – you guessed it – David Foster Wallace. I got one hit for James Joyce (ha!) and another for Margaret Atwood. I was tempted to cheat and go with MA, but in the end Mr King won out.
I’ve only read one Stephen King novel, ages ago. As I say, I wasn’t keen on the story so much, but I liked how it was written. And I’ve had a book by DFW on my Amazon wish list for ages after a friend on twitter raved about it, so I will take another look. I am VERY PLEASED that I didn’t get Dan Brown. *shudder*
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I found this on a friend’s Facebook page, and mentioned it on hootoo, from where Bel picked it up and got everyone involved (for a given value of “everyone”). Where did you get it from? I’m just curious to see how these things spread.
TRiG.
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I saw it on Twitter a couple of times in the past few days. Gosh, I haven’t even looked at hootoo in weeks – maybe I’ll go check out Bel’s thread.
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Oh, and I got Neil Gaiman for my Quagmire piece. I was happy with that.
What happened to the novel?
TRiG.
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That’s a good piece, TRiG. And Neil Gaiman is quite acceptable.
“Novel” is sitting on a bookshelf somewhere, in a big fat file.
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I wonder how many authors are actually in the database? We can’t all be the spiritual siblings of this Wallace guy.
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Later I’ll try inserting some text from other authors and see if they end up writing like themselves. But now … the gym!
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