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Post by M is for Morphine on Nov 7, 2012 12:30:10 GMT -5
Put what I've got so far into "I write like."
Got Dan Brown.
Cried into my hands.
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Post by Jove on Nov 7, 2012 13:13:27 GMT -5
Put what I've got so far into "I write like." Got Dan Brown. Cried into my hands. Same.  Also things are going really not well for me. This is the third time I've started from the top. Starting at the beginning never works for me and I also I forgot how to write. Gonna try something different this time. All you overachievers can wave at me as I drag my broken and mangled body over the finish line on the 31st. |
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Post by Kristykimmy on Nov 7, 2012 13:25:44 GMT -5
Who is Dan Brown?
I could never try anything like that, because if I found out I wrote like Stephanie Meyer or something I might just defenestrate myself.
@jakie: I thought the whole point of NaNo was to put down the entire plot, no matter how much crap it turns out to be, just so you get it all out, and then fix it over the next few months and stuff. Which is why you aren't supposed to go back and really look at anything you've written so far, so as not to get disheartened.
I mean, I know I've got some spots that are pure crap, but I'm moving on to get the entire thing down and out and then fixing it as a whole.
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Post by Chao on Nov 7, 2012 13:40:07 GMT -5
Writing currently is a struggle. Not so much in terms of lacking ideas or not knowing where the plot is going, but more in terms of interrupting handkerchiefs, coughing episodes and cold-induced lack of motivation. So I'm currently behind and were it not for a writing buddy with whom I do regular 20-minute word wars, things would really look dark. As it is I'm slowly catching up.
I write like Ildiko von Kürthy (and no, you don't have to know her, as I, writing in German, had to use the German version of I write like and it came with German authors of course...). However, considering that this author writes romance with humour and a dash of self-irony for her characters, I'm pretty much okay with the result.
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 7, 2012 16:21:11 GMT -5
Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, among other novels. |
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Post by Yoyti on Nov 7, 2012 18:56:28 GMT -5
So, I tried "I write like," expecting someone like Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll, given that my writing tends to have that sort of surreal and geeky humor. I got Dan Brown. Is that the only author in their database?  |
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Post by Kristykimmy on Nov 7, 2012 19:56:25 GMT -5
So, I tried "I write like," expecting someone like Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll, given that my writing tends to have that sort of surreal and geeky humor. I got Dan Brown. Is that the only author in their database? I pasted in the Jabberwocky poem and got Lewis Carroll. Typed in the first paragraph of The Secret Garden, changing all names and making Mary a boy, (just in case it can recognize names) got Leo Tolstoy. Typed it in properly still Leo Tolstoy. Which either means F. H. Burnett isn't in there, or she wrote like Tolstoy. Typed in a section of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky writes like Charles Dickens. Make what you will of that. XD |
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Post by PFA on Nov 8, 2012 2:37:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I think the "I write like" thing is not really very... accurate. XD;
in other news ugh, i need to start writing faster, i keep hitting the daily recommended wordcount after midnight
i need to make sure i break this habit come the 30th
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Post by Jove on Nov 8, 2012 8:19:08 GMT -5
I write like is pretty much mostly for fun. Taking it seriously will only end in tears. ...I will say though, that until now everything else I've put in of mine gets me Lovecraft. I am more than okay with this. @jakie: I thought the whole point of NaNo was to put down the entire plot, no matter how much crap it turns out to be, just so you get it all out, and then fix it over the next few months and stuff. Which is why you aren't supposed to go back and really look at anything you've written so far, so as not to get disheartened. I mean, I know I've got some spots that are pure crap, but I'm moving on to get the entire thing down and out and then fixing it as a whole. No, you're right. Some of it will always be crap. It's when I start off and I get nothing except crap, and I can't figure out how to write a major character that it becomes a serious problem. It's like trying to build a house on a swamp. Sooner or later the whole thing is gonna sink. Anyhow I thought about it for a while and I figured out how I need to go about this to make it work. It's a time travel story anyway so there's literally no need to move in a linear fashion. In media res here we go. |
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Post by M is for Morphine on Nov 8, 2012 10:15:54 GMT -5
Hey, I've got a question for you all.
Does your story include any in-jokes or references to other works of literature?
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Post by Kristykimmy on Nov 8, 2012 10:34:42 GMT -5
I write like is pretty much mostly for fun. Taking it seriously will only end in tears. ...I will say though, that until now everything else I've put in of mine gets me Lovecraft. I am more than okay with this. @jakie: I thought the whole point of NaNo was to put down the entire plot, no matter how much crap it turns out to be, just so you get it all out, and then fix it over the next few months and stuff. Which is why you aren't supposed to go back and really look at anything you've written so far, so as not to get disheartened. I mean, I know I've got some spots that are pure crap, but I'm moving on to get the entire thing down and out and then fixing it as a whole. No, you're right. Some of it will always be crap. It's when I start off and I get nothing except crap, and I can't figure out how to write a major character that it becomes a serious problem. It's like trying to build a house on a swamp. Sooner or later the whole thing is gonna sink. Anyhow I thought about it for a while and I figured out how I need to go about this to make it work. It's a time travel story anyway so there's literally no need to move in a linear fashion. In media res here we go. Good luck, Jakie. I really hope it works out this. =D M is for Morphine: Since my stories are never set on earth, not really, and I have no real in-jokes to use. I know I could anyway, but it just doesn't feel right to me to reference something that probably have existed in their world. |
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Post by Jayeee on Nov 8, 2012 10:42:31 GMT -5
Last year, I write like said my NaNo was like Vladimir Nabokov XD This year, it's Lovecraft. Hey, I've got a question for you all. Does your story include any in-jokes or references to other works of literature? Mine does! =D Only a couple so far, i've referenced Catcher in the Rye (a reference which in turn references David Copperfield. REFERENCEPTION!), and then Pride and Prejudice. |
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Post by Chao on Nov 8, 2012 12:04:05 GMT -5
Hey, I've got a question for you all. Does your story include any in-jokes or references to other works of literature? Not so much literature, but I referenced BBC's Sherlock ;D Next up will most likely be 'Bride and Prejudice' since one of my main characters gets to attend a Hindu wedding... so he's supposed to dance 'and pet the dog with one hand while screwing in a light bulb with the other' ;D |
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Post by PFA on Nov 8, 2012 12:44:14 GMT -5
Hey, I've got a question for you all. Does your story include any in-jokes or references to other works of literature? Last night, I somehow managed to reference Kingdom Hearts and one of my own original series in quick succession, but otherwise no. XD; It's going to be an NT series, so I can't really go too far with references to begin with. |
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Post by Yoyti on Nov 8, 2012 19:39:52 GMT -5
Hey, I've got a question for you all. Does your story include any in-jokes or references to other works of literature? Of course! I got my obligatory Douglas Adams reference in towards the beginning (I mentioned the Whole Sort Of General Mish Mosh Of Things). My G&S reference is subtler. I named one of my characters Laetitia Isling after Laetita Grinder and Thomas Brown, duke of Islington, from The Zoo (which Gilbert wasn't involved in, but whatever.) And there are a few other references hidden in there, including one to Gadsby, a novel containing no instances of the letter 'E,' which is actually thematically relevant. |
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