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  J M Beal

Sanity is over-rated.

3/26/2014

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I write like
Edgar Allan Poe

I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

"I wish I could write as mysteriously as a cat."
-Edgar Allen Poe                            
I don't quite know what to do with that. There are absolutely worse writers to be compared to, but I always attributed a certain level of...crazy to Poe. Not just in his private life, but in his writing too. I've been told I'm good at creepy, even in places I don't particularly think I'm being creepy. 

If I ever turn up incoherent in Baltimore, figure out why I died before you bury me please. And for the love of all things holy, don't let someone who hates me write my eulogy. Also, there will be no marrying of thirteen year old cousins (obviously).

It would be nice to manage a decent short story though.

For the sake of argument I put a different book snipped in their thing, and it gave me Cory Doctorow--who I'd never read and I've just fallen in love with the first twenty pages of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
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Kate link
3/26/2014 12:28:21 pm

Yeah, that thing is totally dependent upon which snippet you put into it. I got Salinger, which just blew my mind.

I think that giving it a scene in a bar is what did that.

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Tamela link
3/29/2014 03:42:20 pm

I always get Margaret Atwood (who I have sadly never read). Once I put in a bit of Harry Potter fanfic that I had written (shhhh) and got... Stephen King. o___O IDEK, man.

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