I randomly came across this one site that takes an excerpt of what you have written and analyzes the word choice and stuff to see which famous author your writing style is most similar to. So I took a section I deemed acceptable from my current work in progress and put it into their analyzer. The story is about a government resistance group and their mission to evacuate the leftover population in a space colony before the colony's destruction. The result was this:
excerpt from Untitled:
I've only read one thing of Dan Brown and that is The Da Vinci Code in high school. From what I remembered of reading him, I translated this as "I write the basic facts and don't spend time on elaborate description." Of which I objected to because I can totally write cool description when I feel like it. So I went back to a very short story I wrote at the end of last semester and analyzed that. The story is about a young woman who finds a tree with blossoms of ice that can cure a frozen heart when swallowed. This is what I got.
From Blossoms of Ice:
I have a feeling this woman is right up my ally in terms of reading material. Sadly, I've never gone out of my way to read her. I can only name Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned off the top of my head. This was a better result than Dan Brown, I figure. She's more cult classic fantasy whereas Dan Brown is more mainstream international thriller.
Now, you can't try something just twice, so I had to do it a third time. This time, I used something short and sweet and already published on this here blog. You might be familiar with it. If not, click the link below and read it yourself when you have time. It's about two trees. When the website analyzed that, it gave me this.
from 100 Things to Write - Love
I had to Google this guy. He's famous for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and all its subsequent sequels. According to Wikipedia, he wanted to write fairy tales that were not as gruesome as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. Yes, there is still gore involved in his stories, but at least the tone is completely different. I think we can all attest to that.
People I normally read include Scott Westerfeld, Patrick Rothfuss, and Tamora Pierce. I find it funny how I don't write like them and instead write like people I don't really read.
I feel very versatile.
Showing posts with label Internet Surfing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Surfing. Show all posts
31 May 2011
19 March 2010
Where Did I Go? Comments from a Web Surfer
No where, really. But every time I think about this blog, I think about how few things I actually do outside schoolwork and writing. I don’t read as much as other people, and I have to admit, looking at things with a critical eye takes the fun out of it. So I’ve decided to also litter this blog with other things – like the cool videos I find on YouTube! And other things.
Laini Taylor is a fun blog to follow. She finds awesome writing advice including this pretty neat speech by Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat Pray Love. Check it out, my roommate loves it.
I am also a fan of The Big Bang Theory. I’ve been watching that whenever I have to eat alone.
And when I’m not really doing anything else, I find random YouTube videos. Like this one. Check that out too because it’s awesome. I almost want to go on Chat Roulette to find him, but I don’t want to see a quarter of the people I meet doing inappropriate things to their webcam.
And then when that is done, I feel like listening to Owl City’s Fireflies, so that’s what I do. And my surfing goes from there.
Internet surfing makes me think of the old 90s cartoon Reboot, which I watched last year and inadvertently found this Reboot revival movement. That was also interesting. But the show features a web surfer for a few episodes who uses a surf board and talks with a slight Aussie accent.
But Reboot was made in the 90s when the Internet and its potential was just speculation. Which makes me wonder what Reboot would be like if it were revamped with today’s technology and ideologies. To prevent copyrighting, there will have to be new characters. But they’ll still feature some sort of Anti-Spyware character, the main programming character, a character for each major program on the computer, and so forth. I say we keep the binomial characters because they’re cute, personally, but that’s just me.
A friend of mine mentioned something once. He said that we’ve now gotten to the point where, if a person is smart, you don’t have to hunt for a software problem at all. If a program goes bad, just uninstall it and then reinstall it – simple fix without the hassle. And any other problems you had would also disappear. So now the common folk don’t even know how computers are run, we just know how to work them. Does that scare you? Because if computers die, a lot of people's lives will die with them (mine included).
Inevitably, I end up picturing myself in a cool-looking protective suit with a surf board and wishing that whole thing was real. Damn, that’d be fun.
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