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Jul. 13th, 2010 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gozerEDITED:
I'm removing all the "I write like" links because the people who put up the meme quiz are uber-dodgey creeps.
A (somewhat violent) paragraph from a Eureka/SGA crossover I've been writing:
"I WRITE LIKE Dan Brown"
Please to be shooting me in the head now.
Another excerpt: the opening paragraph from a Due South story I wrote about 10 years ago.
"I WRITE LIKE Chuck Palahniuk"
Say what? WTF is the criteria for this? IT'S A FUCKING WHIMSICAL STORY, PEOPLE!
This is the opening to the SGA story I'm (supposed to be) writing for Lavvyan, as I promised to finish it:
"I WRITE LIKE Douglas Adams"
THIRD TIME LUCKY! That's the guy I want to write like. I really should finish this story. (Actually? Now that I think of it, I've always wanted to write like a cross between James Thurber and Jean Shepherd, which would be humourous but a bit less flip than Adams.)
Another Due South story (The Third Woman, heavily based on the Graham Greene novel, The Third Man) got Stephen King for the first two random paragraphs I plugged in, then Arthur Conan Doyle for the next two, then back to King. I would not have thought King or Doyle had Greene's style, but there you go. Okay, after plugging in excerpts from a dozen of my stories, it looks like King is the winner a little over half the time.
Update on the computer woe situation: I've lost my emails from the middle of April to current and I realized that I had ripped about fifty CDs into my iTunes library but hadn't backed them up, so I'll be ripping those CDs all over again. But these are minor cavils! The printer is back online, The Bat! was downloaded and registered w/o a problem, and as soon as I defragment the computer, I'll be re-loading the back up files I made in mid-April. It's really not that bad, I haven't lost all that much. It's just... worky. Getting the file folders to do what I want and look right, making the desktop fonts the right size and colors, massaging the Word "normal" template into what I want it to be. I still have to download iTunes software and change the HP mouse over to my wireless mouse.
Thank god for Revo Uninstaller -- I've run a dozen software downloads and half of them like to sneak in their own toolbars or other crap add-ins that I don't want or need. AOL is very pushy, too, as it tries to remain au courant in a world that is no longer interested. Why it thinks changing my homepage without permission to the "free AOL" front page is going to intrigue me enough to use its services, I don't know. And if you hate, hate, hate Windows Search 4.0 as much as I do, an annoying search-your-desktop-and-files software that just came through in that last service pack, you can get rid of it easily using Revo.
I'm removing all the "I write like" links because the people who put up the meme quiz are uber-dodgey creeps.
A (somewhat violent) paragraph from a Eureka/SGA crossover I've been writing:
"I WRITE LIKE Dan Brown"
Please to be shooting me in the head now.
Another excerpt: the opening paragraph from a Due South story I wrote about 10 years ago.
"I WRITE LIKE Chuck Palahniuk"
Say what? WTF is the criteria for this? IT'S A FUCKING WHIMSICAL STORY, PEOPLE!
This is the opening to the SGA story I'm (supposed to be) writing for Lavvyan, as I promised to finish it:
"I WRITE LIKE Douglas Adams"
THIRD TIME LUCKY! That's the guy I want to write like. I really should finish this story. (Actually? Now that I think of it, I've always wanted to write like a cross between James Thurber and Jean Shepherd, which would be humourous but a bit less flip than Adams.)
Another Due South story (The Third Woman, heavily based on the Graham Greene novel, The Third Man) got Stephen King for the first two random paragraphs I plugged in, then Arthur Conan Doyle for the next two, then back to King. I would not have thought King or Doyle had Greene's style, but there you go. Okay, after plugging in excerpts from a dozen of my stories, it looks like King is the winner a little over half the time.
Update on the computer woe situation: I've lost my emails from the middle of April to current and I realized that I had ripped about fifty CDs into my iTunes library but hadn't backed them up, so I'll be ripping those CDs all over again. But these are minor cavils! The printer is back online, The Bat! was downloaded and registered w/o a problem, and as soon as I defragment the computer, I'll be re-loading the back up files I made in mid-April. It's really not that bad, I haven't lost all that much. It's just... worky. Getting the file folders to do what I want and look right, making the desktop fonts the right size and colors, massaging the Word "normal" template into what I want it to be. I still have to download iTunes software and change the HP mouse over to my wireless mouse.
Thank god for Revo Uninstaller -- I've run a dozen software downloads and half of them like to sneak in their own toolbars or other crap add-ins that I don't want or need. AOL is very pushy, too, as it tries to remain au courant in a world that is no longer interested. Why it thinks changing my homepage without permission to the "free AOL" front page is going to intrigue me enough to use its services, I don't know. And if you hate, hate, hate Windows Search 4.0 as much as I do, an annoying search-your-desktop-and-files software that just came through in that last service pack, you can get rid of it easily using Revo.
