So where do the ideas actually come from? Mostly from getting annoyed about things. Not big issues so much … as the little irritations that drive you wild out of all proportion.
– Douglas Adams
Tag: Douglas Adams
Quotable 42
The only way to get ideas for stories is to drink way too much coffee and buy a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
— Douglas Adams
Pen to Paper: I Write Like
My friend Susan told me about the I Write Like site. I’ve had entirely too much fun playing with it. I tested 30 of my fiction posts with the IWL analysis. Here is the short version of the results:
Once each: Margaret Atwood, Jack London, J.D. Salinger, Ian Fleming (on a story involving multiple ways to kill someone), David Foster Wallace, Margaret Mitchell, P.G. Wodehouse (!), Raymond Chandler, Harry Harrison, and Bram Stoker (on a vampire story).
Twice each: Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, and JK Rowling.
Three times: Chuck Palahniuk.
Four times: Dan Brown:.
Seven times: Stephen King.