Here's what I used:
"Yesterday, I lazily set up a two stride line that boxed in the vertical on the short side and made up a little course with the three jumps. He was totally nonchalant about the whole thing. I'm keeping the jumps tiny for now, so it's not exactly physically or mentally stimulating, but that's the whole point, isn't it?
I think I've finally cracked the Bobby Jumping Code. Three whole years of doing one extreme of this or that, and I've finally pieced together a little bit of both and created a perfect gentleman of a jumper. Well, over 2'6" at least. We'll see how well it holds up once I ask him to go a little more forward for bigger jumps.
But srsly.
Jumping used to consist of not being able to count how many good jumps we got in the entire ride because you can't count to zero on your fingers! Now I can count on one hand how many eyebrow-raising jumps we get throughout the course of the ride. Note "eyebrow-raising" and not "cover your head and peak between your fingers to see if it's over" jumps. I'll force Hubby to get video this weekend."
Any guesses on what writer I supposedly emulate?
Uh, would anyone have guessed Stephen King? Yeahhh....not really seeing it, unless even a random internet site is trying to tell my riding is downright horrifying. That's kind of a depressing thought.
So what about you guys? Who do you write like?
Apparently my blog is also written by Stephen King (which mortally offends me... really seriously). My grad school statement of purpose reads like Arthur Clarke (that's more like it... :D) and apparently some of my 15 pages of writing sample are like Anne Rice, and Dan Brown. So I guess I'm varied, and hopefully grad school likes that lol
ReplyDeleteI just ran my cotton lead rope review through...and got Chuck Palahniuk. Wow. Um...sure. Ok.
ReplyDeleteApparently, my last blog post was written in the style of Ernest Hemingway. Now I'm going to do a couple more to compare. Surely that can't be right...
ReplyDeleteI ran an excerpt from my NanoWrimo novel and got Arthur Clarke :)
ReplyDeleteI got Jack London, haha.
ReplyDeleteI got some dude named David Foster Wallace... never heard of him or anything wikipedia says he wrote. COOL
ReplyDeleteI'm Stephen King (blog) and Gertrude Stein (other writing). Never read either of them.
ReplyDeleteI also got David Foster Wallace. Never heard of him. So I think I'm gonna plug in other posts until I sound like someone I've heard of!
ReplyDeleteDo we all write like Stephen King?
ReplyDeleteI did a few more samples and got Cory Doctorow... no idea who he is ha!
Who the hell is William Gibson... ?
ReplyDelete()&#(*^(*@*(@*(*(@ You have no idea who WILLIAM GIBSON IS...!!! >:[
Delete"Noir prophet of the cyberpunk genre."
DeleteAlrighty, then. I am still clueless. :-)
I got Vladimir Nabokov. I... uh... thanks?
ReplyDeleteHG Wells for me...how cool!
ReplyDeleteI actually like Stephen King's writing - call me crazy. I got Cory Doctorow.
ReplyDeleteJames Joyce. Oh, okay..
ReplyDeleteSheMoved, I got Cory Doctorow, too! I have heard of him but knew absolutely nothing about him, so I Googled and learned. Science fiction, seems like. Really? Never written science fiction in my life and haven't read a whole lot of it, either.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that several of you got H.G. Wells and Stephen King, perhaps that site is slanted towards that genre...
I am curious how many authors they have as references, since most of us got Stephen King and Cory Doctorow (I got both from my blog). I will have to find some of my other writing and see what it comes up with. I agree with SheMovedToTexas, I like Stephen King, at least some of his work.
ReplyDeleteJRR Tolkien apparently...I guess there were some horses in those books, at least :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I entered 3 different blog posts and got 3 different authors - Cory Doctorow, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace…not sure what that means. Am I really that eclectic?
ReplyDeleteStephen King...Cory Doctorow...Rudyard Kipling...Anne Rice...Apparently my writing is conflicted.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha, that's hilarious, going to have to try it.
ReplyDeleteHahaha this is hilarious. Cory Doctorow, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson...and that's just from my blog. My writing is seriously conflicted too :P
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