Writing meme

[msagara]

About the writing meme that's going around:

Chapter one of Skirmish: Douglas Adams
Chapter two of Skirmish: Stephen King
Chapter three of Skrimish: H.P. Lovecraft.
Chapter four of Skirmish: Raymond Chandler

All four chapters: Douglas Adams (the chapters run about 10k words each)

Chapter one of Cast in Ruin: Ray Bradbury
Chapter two of Cast in Ruin: Johathan Swift (sic)
Chapter three of Cast in Ruin: Douglas Adams
Chapter four of Cast in Ruin: Dan Brown

All four chapters: Ray Bradbury (the chapters run around 5k words each)

… but smaller sample sizes (a few paragraphs) tend to all be Dan Brown, with one Stephen King.

Comments

[trektone.livejournal.com]

Wow - Skirmish!

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

That would be an interesting collaboration.

My longer blog posts tend to come out as James Joyce, and the shorter ones as Stephen King. I wish it gave more detailed analysis, though, instead of just spitting out a name. Actually, it would be nice even just to know what the range of possible answers is.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am envious of your Bradbury.

[cloudshaper2k.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering how much analysis it actually does - particularly since different segments of the same work produce wildly different results.

Might be time to see if we can break it . . .

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

My network has created a monster. I think we have definitively proven that the algorithm is highly unsophisticated.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Am pouting because I got neither Bradbury or Douglas Adams...