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Author Topic: Really, I write like...What?  (Read 6401 times)

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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2010, 07:36:34 pm »
Quote from: wombat on July 21, 2010, 07:23:41 pm
It would be fun if it were well done.  But reading that it's just a spam filter that compares vocabulary, to only fifty authors, and seeing that it gives everyone the same answers anyway, that's no fun at all.


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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2010, 07:58:36 pm »
WTF?  

This post = Stephen King?

This post = David Foster Wallace?

This blog post = Dan Brown?

There's a strong lack of vag. with these authors, no?
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2010, 08:16:13 pm »
Five Touamb posts of at least 3 paragraphs length.  Five different authors, including James Joyce and Charles Dickens.  Impenetrable and wordy - not characteristics I was hoping for.

I wonder - if you grabbed some selections from those authors whether the device would correctly identify them.


Edit:  4/5 correct identifications for excerpts from Cory Doctorow, DFW, and Dan Brown.  An unpublished excerpt from DFW was written in the style of Stephen King apparently.

I had no idea who Cory Doctorow was before this, and on quick inspection seems to write stuff I might like - so thanks for that!
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2010, 08:18:57 pm »
OK, so, trying not to be a party pooper, I went and pasted in the first page of something I wrote, and it came back as Cory Doctorow, which seems to be one of the answers it gives everyone. And I went and read the first page of something of his on Amazon, which is in the third person and all narration, when mine was first person and half dialogue.

I say, bummer. It's something that could be so interesting if done correctly, but the idea has been taken by someone whose implementation is crap. That is not fun, that is sad.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2010, 08:58:48 pm »
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2010, 12:02:45 am »
Yeah, dude really digs on like the angle that makes sports fun for me.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2010, 06:30:25 pm »
There is nothing better in philosophical-style science fiction than some good deep Dick-ing.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2010, 06:41:50 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on July 22, 2010, 06:30:25 pm
There is nothing better in philosophical-style science fiction than some good deep Dick-ing.

Women who read romance novels instead of sci-fi just need some good deep Dick-ing.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2010, 07:05:06 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on July 22, 2010, 06:41:50 pm
Women who read romance novels instead of sci-fi just need some good deep Dick-ing.

wouldnt that be common among a lot of women, despite their reading preferences?
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2010, 07:13:16 pm »
That assumes that most women aren't already getting Dick-ing. I mean, presumably there's a large percentage of the population that is already sufficiently Dick-ed.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2010, 07:15:55 pm »
I consider it a public service to do all the dicking I do.

I'm like, dick dick dick.

(sorry, I forgot you don't like it when I talk about my dicking)
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2010, 11:30:31 pm »
How many dicks is that?
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2010, 03:10:52 am »
I like Dick but find he's kind of divisive, you don't want to recommend or lend to someone until you get to know them, let alone espouse his philosophy.

Don't be a Dick to strangers is what I'm saying I guess.

On another note I had a friend who loved his idea of the Exegesis and was psyched that they were publishing some of it, so I guess some of you might as well.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #28 on: July 23, 2010, 03:53:41 am »
I think Dick is overrated.  He's kind of a lousy writer and I give his ideas a B+ at best.  I can think of several SF writers of his generation that I respect more.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2010, 03:57:09 am »
I'm actually not huge on Dick. Some of my female friends really love Dick (and some guys too) but Dick has never managed to touch me like Asimov, say.

Really I only brought Dick up to pass the time on a boring friday afternoon.
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