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Sometimes all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June Heat wave is faking me out Can't make you happier now... -- Heat Wave, by Glass Animals Since this song came out a few years ago, I've marvelled at how well it captures that strange feeling of malaise that comes with the onset of long hot days, dull drowsy afternoons, and brief nights which seem to be spent mostly lying awake wrestling with the meaning of life and one's purpose. Mine is a strange existence. |
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Just discovered this adorable story and realized WdC has a slew of donut emoticons!         
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Nice, but, emoticons like these are the reason we have controversy over donuts (doughnuts) as rings and NOT the filled like Berliners.  Some idiot on Reddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/pirl2n/donuts_witout_holes_ar... one commenter destroyed argument with: 'where do donut holes come from then'? Doughnut has to be whole to get a hole. I G00gle too much Oh, and... "Mommy, where do donut holes come from?" The bakery. |
I’m a sucker for stuffed animals… when I saw an ad for “what Squishmallow fits your personality,” I couldn’t resist clicking on it and working patiently through about a million questions (successfully navigating the spammy site without clicking any ads by accident) and came up with this: Like Paco the Parrot, you can hold a great conversation. Or you can spread your wings and fly away. Everyone loves your brightly colored soul and wishes they could express themselves as effortlessly as you do. |
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I've got the heebie-jeebies about this latest item I've written for "Musicology Anthology"  I've wanted to write it for years, but it's such a delicate subject. Does it work within the word count? Is it impactful? Respectful? Understandable? Just in time for Pride, too. Any feedback is greatly appreciated   
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Say, does anyone know who this cute genie Award Icon used to belong to? The group it’s associated with is no longer in existence. I’d like to know the story behind it…  |
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| A sample of famous authors I write like so far, according to https://iwl.me/ Agatha Christie "St Elmo's Fire" Cory Doctorow "Oh My My" (folder description only) Margaret Atwood "The Wolf Speaks" Mary Shelley "Ode to the Emerald Isle" Ernest Hemingway "The Name’s Daisy" Steven King for the first few paragraphs, Ernest Hemingway for a random chunk further down…"A Robin and a Rose" Vladimir Nabokov first half, Ernest Hemingway again for the second half…"Rescue" Cory Doctorow again, consistently through different sections "Tools of the Trade" (I don’t understand how a fictional story with realistic dialogue can be in the style of a blogger and journalist…) [ok, he's also a novelist, a champion of the Creative Commons license.] Apparently I have to pin down my style… but I kind of thought it was a good thing to be able to have a flexible writing style  I mean, a poem about Ireland isn’t supposed to sound like Steven King wrote it, right? And neither King nor Hemingway wrote what I would call “inspirational.” And a nonfiction piece shouldn’t read like Edgar Allen Poe! I don’t get it. s  I’m impressed everything you wrote turned out the same. Is it even possible across different types of writing? One would have to spend a ton of time on that site to get any proper idea. |
| Well considering it's an app. The programmers probably used an algorithm to analyze writing samples and compared them to samples of known authors they compiled into a library for the program. It may or may not be accurate. My opinion is that you cannot say conclusively that one author's style is 100% like another's. For what it's worth, the pieces of yours that I've read aren't like Ernest Hemingway. But I still like what I've read of your work. |
| I see your point, but I think there's more to it than just the surface bit. The word choices, sentence structure, sentence length, punctuation useage, and other things also play into our style and voice. It may be looking more at that. Here are some pieces it said looked like Agatha Christie, but I think they're very different. I've got fiction, nonfiction, humor, kid's stories, etc. Also, remember that I don't think any of us downloaded the app, which allegedly will tell us the percentage our writing is like the author they say. So, while all these may most resemble Agatha Christie, they may only resemble her writing by 10%. For anyone wondering why all my stuff is Agatha Christie, it's definitely not. I had to go through a lot of items to find these. My writing isn't that consistent yet.  Interestingly, I also found that my PhD application paper, as a whole, was Agatha Christie. But when I tested each paragraph, almost all of them came up as David Foster Wallace. None came up as Agatha Christie, so I would guess that a larger sample is better for the "accuracy."
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Oh, one similarity I can identify with all my writing I posted was they all had typos.   But I don't think Agatha Christie was specifically known for that. |
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