Watcha Writin'?

[aimeeandbeatles]

According to the about page they use Bayesian classifier. There's a list of the authors too.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Pasting in a few paragraphs from my currently-writing chapter gives me David Foster Wallace. Hm.

 

[Zkribbler]

Now, hard-boiled detective story writer Raymond Chandler, with whom I feel much more affinity than with cozy-writer Agatha Christie. After another page, I turned into James Joyce.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Agatha Christie seems popular. I got that result too.

 

[Zkribbler]

Now, hard-boiled detective story writer Raymond Chandler, with whom I feel much more affinity than with cozy-writer Agatha Christie. After another page, I turned into James Joyce.

I'm a huge fan of "Thief" games. My newest story is inspired by them. So after writing like Chandler and Joyce, at the 500-word mark, I'm now writing like Dan Brown. Strange, I've just introduced walking dead, so you'd think I'd be writing like Ann Rice.

After a great 2-sentence beginning, the story was soon slogging, and I almost abandoned it. . However, I realized I'd blundered into writing backstory . so I cut out three offending sentence, and things are moving once again.

 

[Zkribbler]

I I've just introduced walking dead, so you'd think I'd be writing like Ann Rice.

At 1,000 words, my master thief has just escaped from his dungeon into the catacombs. Now I'm writing like Ann Rice.

My great worry going into this story was that because my thief would have to sneak with agonizing slowness through shadows, the story would be boring, but slow movement is what makes up words 500-1000, and it's no problem.

 

[Zkribbler]

After 1943 words, Chapter 1 is done, my thief has escaped from the catacombs, but again I'm writing like Agatha Christie.
Although I'm immensely enjoying writing this it will turn into either a novella or a novel. I want to have something finished for the Writers of the Future Contest by the end of June.

"Comes Erebus" is elected.

My three main characters are all in the Imperial palace. I'd planned on delaying things until Erebus approached Earth so my guys could splash down near Cape Cod, but the timing isn't going to work out right. They'll be escaping back to Mars' moon Phobos instead.

 

[Zkribbler]

"Comes Erebus" is elected.

Uh oh. I'd guestimate 4 more chapters to finish this up. I usually write about 1 chapter per week. But there are only 2 more weeks left before the contest's deadline.

Edit: I do most of my writing at night & last night, we lost power.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here are some free writing courses from the Open University

Start Writing Fiction
Start Writing Fiction: Characters and Stories
Writing What You Know

 

[Zkribbler]

Uh oh. I'd guestimate 4 more chapters to finish this up. I usually write about 1 chapter per week. But there are only 2 more weeks left before the contest's deadline.

Edit: I do most of my writing at night & last night, we lost power.

Bah, 4 weeks of writing in 2 weeks, less 1 night of no power, less 1 day in Tag. It ain't going to happen.
I've remember I can resubmit previous entries. The one from last year has a "spongy" beginning, so I'm going to see if I can make it better.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My current writing streak is 90 days now.

 

[Zkribbler]

My current writing streak is 90 days now.

That's amazing.

Me: 1 out of 10 chapter's rewritten this morning.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've been working on two scenes in my chapter simultaneously, switching between them when I get stuck on either. I'm about 70-80% done on the first scene and about halfway through the second if anybody wants to try to do the math on that. There's a third scene I've not started yet, but it'll probably be very short.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

All these status updates and I still don't know what either of your prose is like.

Though I understand posting snippets can jeopardize your copyright if you're angling for a commercial publisher.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Mine's a fanfiction.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.wordhippo.com/

I found this in my bookmarks. It's good for when thesaurus.com is being a pain.

 

[Zkribbler]

The one from last year has a "spongy" beginning, so I'm going to see if I can make it better.

Story submitted

All these status updates and I still don't know what either of your prose is like.

I don't either. My prose seems to mold itself to the story.
I avoid profanity, sex, and violence. When I try to write a scene with violence, my story will grind to a halt.
I try to keep my chapters equal in length, about 6-8 pages. Chapter headings are: "Chapter;" Arabic numeral, & chapter title. This facilitates me finding passages,
I try very hard to write a first line that makes the reader want to read the second line.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Since it wouldn't go out of my head, I jumped ahead and started working on scene 3. It's very short (likely less than 500 words). and I've got it mostly done already.

 

[Zkribbler]

After 1943 words, Chapter 1 is done, my thief has escaped from the catacombs.

After thinking about what would be in Chapter 2 of my Thief story, I've doubled back and added an additional fistfight in the catacombs, and because my MC will need money, a quick burglary. 2200 words.

What I really need is a giant-zombie-ghoul. But in today's high fantasy, I don't believe there is such a hybrid.
[Later: I think a zombie cyclops will work.]

BTW: I'm still writing like Agatha Christie.

 

[Zkribbler]

The 287 words of Chapter 2 are written like James Joyce.