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Re: I write like...
« Reply #45 on: July 19, 2010, 11:58:55 PM »
Yeah, but given the nature of his writing, he sometimes includes lines of computer code or "chat speak" in his novel...so that could be the code to get your computer to make you pizza from the harddrive and spit it out the disc drive  ;D
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #46 on: July 20, 2010, 02:15:16 AM »
Hm... Maybe it isn't a scam.



Seems accurate enough to me. :D


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Re: I write like...
« Reply #47 on: July 20, 2010, 05:46:25 AM »
Hm... Maybe it isn't a scam.



Seems accurate enough to me. :D

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Yup seems accurate to me.
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #48 on: July 20, 2010, 05:54:12 AM »
You forgot to put "necrophilia" on your check list  :P
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« Reply #49 on: July 20, 2010, 05:58:48 AM »
There's no necrophilia anywhere in what CapnCowl wrote.
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #50 on: July 20, 2010, 06:22:26 PM »
no there isnt, if it was stephnie meyer, necrophila would be in there. dude just dont ask i just woke up when i posted that
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #51 on: July 20, 2010, 07:53:17 PM »
I entered some technical documentation text I've been working on for the last week and it told me I write like Dan Brown.
I find this hilarious.  Apparently he avoids action verbs that aren't "is" for his fictional writing the way I do in my technical writing? :P
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #52 on: July 21, 2010, 09:13:07 PM »
David Foster Wallace....Chuck Palanuik...Dan Brown....HP Lovecraft...David Foster Wallace again...and again...Dan Brown (again)...Stephenie Meyer (that's the Twilight chick.....isn't it....)....Vladimir Nabokov...HP Lovecraft again...Stephen King...PG Wodehouse....HP Lovecraft (again)....Vladimir Nabokov again....Dan Brown again....and Dan Brown again

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Re: I write like...
« Reply #53 on: July 24, 2010, 07:47:43 AM »
I got Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, so yay!), Oscar Wilde (... that's just cool), Dan Brown (er.... *hides*) and Jack London.

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Re: I write like...
« Reply #54 on: July 24, 2010, 08:44:37 AM »
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Re: I write like...
« Reply #55 on: July 26, 2010, 02:58:58 PM »
I did each of the four paragraphs I did in a different thread for Hawthorn(e) and Enjorous:

1. Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
3. Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code)
4. Margaret Atwood (I don't recognize her books.)
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