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Synonym Finder » Find synonyms, antonyms & definition for (almost) any word. I Write Like Chuck Palahniuk. Become a better writer! Subscribe to our awesome free newsletter to learn how to become a better writer and receive monthly tips on writing. We respect your privacy: email addresses are never sold, and you can unsubscribe at any time. Below are the results of analysis of your text. Analyze new text? Your Badge Code for your blog: <! Link for Twitter, Facebook, etc: I write like Chuck Palahniuk. Link to share with your friends Analyze another text Chuck Palahniuk's Books.

A Q&A with the Creator of "I Write Like": "The Algorithm is Not a Rocket Science" This week's meme is I Write Like, a new website that uses an algorithm of mysterious methodology to tell you which author's work your writing most resembles. You enter some text-"your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book"-and a split-second later, it spits out the html code for a blog-ready badge: "I Write Like H.P.

Lovecraft," or any of the 49 other authors in its database. It's hard science and great literature, together at last! Well, kind of. I Write Like's science has already been strung up and dissected: Gawker's Max Read inputted Mel Gibson's latest phone rant, got Margaret Atwood and came to an unfavorable opinion; Paste magazine got an "I Write Like Stephen King" badge after entering a few Big Boi rhymes; Margaret Atwood herself pasted in a sample of her own writing and got … Stephen King. So take the site's web address-iwl.me-as indication of how seriously we should be taking its diagnoses. Dmitry Chestnykh is the creator of I Write Like. "Never Date a Writer" by xstephens [821940-1] - RedBubble.com. Never date a writer because she’ll fictionalize everything. She’ll write about things you have done to her, or things you never did for her. She’ll write about how you never bought her flowers. Not once. She’ll say in well-constructed prose how the whole time you were together, she never came home from a long week to see a vase full of roses, or daises, or anything.

She’ll describe times you embarrassed her, like at a party. She’ll continue this emphasis on what you had done to her, by describing things she had found, but said nothing about. She’ll later describe the moment in the bedroom when she sat at the foot of the bed and you kneeled in front of her. And she’ll send you a manuscript and you’ll be on the couch where you both had sat and you’ll read every word. You’ll sit alone on that couch where you made love to her and you won’t move and the glass of whiskey on the table will not be touched.

5 Ways Not to Write a Novel. Writing a novel? There's first-draft flow, and there's editing flow. And then there comes a time when you think you might be done, yet the manuscript is still not quite "there. " To sell your work to an agent, and then to a publisher, and finally to a great many readers, put thoughts of flow aside now, and consider the following advice. Each of the guides mentioned is worthy of your careful attention. , such as "Danielle was a woman of medium height with brown hair and brown eyes. " , such as: "He shaved, and then he wiped off the shaving cream," "She walked to the corner, and she looked both ways," or "We opened the door, and we found the mail on the porch. " . Such as the following: the difficult task, both share, blend together, on account of, considering the fact that, report back.

[Better: Add some tension, impending tension, or trouble to every page. . * Did you miss my post about the sometimes unpolished writing of Stephen King ? * Or the one about best writers' resolutions ? 101 Essential Freelancing Resources.