Tuesday is a good thing!

[byslantedlight]

Tuesday is a good thing and this is because - it's all over except the mopping up! And the bank deposits, hopefully... *g* Yeay, marking is done! Enough with the chaos and mark schemes and dreaming of my team and pages and pages of scribbled answers! Wheeee! Onto the next chaos-y type crisis... *g*

Celebratory rambling, I think! So... what's going on in the world...

My flist is full of the I Write Like Meme, which I'm now hugely amused by, because it turns out that it's based on this:

Currently it analyzes vocabulary (use of words), number of words, commas, and semicolons in sentences, number of sentences with quotation marks and dashes (direct speech). (Coding Robots (authors) post).

I was all set to get fretful when it kept telling me that I write like Stephen King (not so much about writing style, cos hey readable, but because surely I should be a millionaire by now too!), so I ran some of my favourite Pros writers through it - Sebastian, Kitty Fisher and HG all write like Stephen King too. In which case - yeay! *g* Well, commawise and dashwise and speech markwise and... how in the world can it analyse number of words?! Presumably they mean number of types of words... And how does it analyse vocabulary? Counting letters? And I want to see the list of 40 authors they've used - who don't I write like?! Anyway - Stephen King! I'd better start clearing up my bank account read, eh? *g*

What else to ramble about? Trouble is, the newspapers make me want to slit my wrists since our shiny new "coalition" (and I use the term lightly) came to power: there is money for school buildings - if you're an academy, privatising the NHS continues but more so, banks get a corporation tax cut, but no help for pensioners and charities over the VAT hike, child benefit and public sector pay is frozen, but alcohol, cigarettes and petrol escape tax increase... Shall I go on? This is why I can't bring myself to visit that Lolitics thing - it's not fucking funny...

Ooh dear, that was a grumpy ramble in the end! See, this is why I shouldn't read the papers any more... Oh, what should I do today - too many things I want to do! Maybe I should... write? *g* I'd quite like to write. In my Stephen King-y style... *vbg* Oh! Or there's the CI5 flats project I was chatting with Jaycat about... *vbg*

Comments

[madmogs.livejournal.com]

Dear god that meme is addictingly ridiculous. I put in 6 of my recent fics (all written in the last 6 weeks) and got 6 different results: HP Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, J K Rowlings, Dan Browne, Isaac Asimov and Jane Austen.

I could continue... Clearly my writing style is somewhat protean.

I must say, the lolitics thing (with the schools thing, reading Ed Balls/Michael Gove hatesex is especially cathartic) is the only reason I'm not heading off on a murderous rampage to Whitehall right now--that and I can't afford the fare.

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

LOL at you and your favourite Pros writers all writing like Stephen King - must be that he is technically a good writer (dunno, haven't read any of his books). Also has a good agent. *g*

I'm sad Lolitics has become locked (I'm sure for good reasons), because first I joined, then it swamped my f'list so I unjoined but liked to look in occasionally when something interesting was happening.

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Hmm, James Joyce, Dan Brown, Stephen King. Three samples, three 'write likes'. Methinks they have a problem with peeps who write xgenre.

On the politics front, I'm with you. They're terrifying. Completely terrifying. I'm sticking my head in the sand and hoping like hell someone comes to their senses (Nick Clegg LOL) and breaks up the coalition.

I'll tell you for free, the LibDems have lost my vote for the forseeable future. I always saw them as the only viable radical alternative. How wrong can you possible be, huh.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Hee, the writing meme!

I lean towards James Joyce (including my un-edited Big Bang and both the original and post-edited versions of "Well Hall", so I guess that's a tendency). Stephen King is in there though, in a few places, and the only 'outlier' was "Roots to Branches" for which I got "Douglas Adams" !?

Now I have no idea what that means, even in terms of commas and dialogue marks. *eyeroll, grinnning*.

As for politicians, I reckon it's not a bad thing if some people move from being interested in the "characters" to the issues... otherwise I am definitely in "lalalala can't hear you" land.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

argh, an irresistible meme ... I put in several bits of fic from more than one fandom ... all Stephen King! What does it all mean? Then I put in original fic and got James Joyce. Which I can live with *g*

*and waves because has been awol and actually still is a little bit awol*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Stephen King is laughing all the way to the bank. How much money did James Joyce make last year? And have you tried to read that stuff? Boring as hell. I'll take King any day.

The idea that anybody who considers themselves an "elite" write is so darned pretentious. This reminds me a lot of actors who want to be "serious". It makes me laugh. It's all fake! Pretending to be Hamlet doesn't make you any more serious than pretending to be Freddy Kruger. It's just how much one looks down their nose at the other. I hate that.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Ooh Stephen King... I went through a Stephen King phase where I read everything of his that I could get my hands on. He's certainly been very prolific over the last 35 years too. Still, of all his works, my favourite is his non-fiction book discussing the horror genre, Danse Macabre.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I was all set to get fretful when it kept telling me that I write like Stephen King (not so much about writing style, cos hey readable, but because surely I should be a millionaire by now too!), so I ran some of my favourite Pros writers through it - Sebastian, Kitty Fisher and HG all write like Stephen King too. In which case - yeay! *g* Well, commawise and dashwise and speech markwise and... how in the world can it analyse number of words?! Presumably they mean number of types of words... And how does it analyse vocabulary? Counting letters? And I want to see the list of 40 authors they've used - who don't I write like?! Anyway - Stephen King! I'd better start clearing up my bank account read, eh? *g*

Don't we all wish! I find King eminently readable and would give my right arm to write like him. I'm not sure what the meme is based on but I've seen some come up with the same results who write nothing like him.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wondered about the coding - thank you.

Has anyone tried putting in some Stephen King prose and seeing whether he writes like himself?

"you write like" meme

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

I couldn't resist either - got James Joyce ::falls over laughing:: - good idea of inamac's, to see if any of these authors actually "write like" themselves!

And yes to what you said about the ConDemned coalition. Too bloody depressing to be funny - it's featherbedding for the richest, all the way as far as the eye can see, and just fuck everybody else.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Dunno, the same story, at different parts, gave me Raymond Chandler, James Joyce (twice), and Stephen King. *g*

I'm finding it depressing to read the papers, I must say. Over here, I'm mad at both parties. Although the Democrats aren't quite as morally bankrupt as the Republicans.

Yay for being done! Yay for more writing--in whatever style!

[mabiana.livejournal.com]

Hope I don't seem stalkerish, but I just saw this (http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring09/PATTflock.php) and thought it might be possible to convert it into a pattern for a plane, if you are still looking for one.