I write like

[Wart]

Jul 25, 2010 19:54:24 GMT -5 Frito Freddie said:

Mine said I write like David Foster Wallace? Who knew Braveheart writes books!

Not William Wallace . . . you dork!
I Wikied this guy since I have no idea who he is and he wrote a book called BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN . . .

That sounds just like you, Freddie!

[PigsnieLite]

I wuz wondering why Frito wuz talking about Braveheart, hahahahahaha!

[scott]

I write like.....Dan Brown.

Ouch. I need to submit a better sample.

[PigsnieLite]

Ewwwwwww. I wondur if anyone around here writes like Tom Clancy. Pigsnit took the test and is peeved that he writes like Jane Austen, LOLL.

[Avril]

So far all my samples have yielded different results. That's because I don't write like anyone! Not really. Really.

[Frito Freddie]

I wish I could write like Fry and Laurie!

[PigsnieLite]

This is one of my favourite bits of theirs. Stephen Fry is so flucking brilliant! A unique child delivered of a unique mother...

[Avril]

Ask Ratty what he thought of Stephen Fry's live show he saw at the Opera House last night....

[dragrat]

He was Fab-tastic ;D Although the whole evening was disguised as a book launch.... It appears to be his second book of his memoirs.. Besides that, he was very entertaining, informative, curious and so forth.

Kinda gave the same feeling as being with the Dalai Lama. Just being in the present of Stephen was enormous fun!

[PigsnieLite]

Dalai Lama. GUFFAW. I think of him more as: charming, affable, Renaissance mannish, sorta like me.

[Avril]

I think Fry and the Dalai Lama share a high degree of enthusiasm - that's what makes them so refreshing and fun.

[dragrat]

Yes, that is what I felt when I heard & saw him.

[sunfrog]

Happy Birthday To The Only "Modern Shakespeare", Dr. Seuss!
I mention Dr. Seuss on this blog. A lot. I think that there are places in the text where Shakespeare and Seuss practically overlap. Not in tragic storyline, of course, but in mastery at using rhyme and meter to make their point.

Last year for Seuss Day we had a grand old time mashing up our beloved poetic heroes over on Twitter with the #SeussSpeare tag, and repeated the effort this year.

Here, for your enjoyment, are the best of the bunch:


Did you hide him here, or there? I hid Polonius under the stairs. #SeussSpeare

"And To Think That I Saw It At Elsinore Castle". No, wait, that wasn't Seuss, that was Horatio. #SeussSpeare

And cut him out into little stars, which those Sneetches o'er thar shall wear upon thars. #SeussSpeare

I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees! Which are marching to Dunsinane quick as they please! #SeussSpeare

Stop! You must not Hop On Top of Pop! Or divide his kingdom between yourselves and send him out alone into a raging storm. #SeussSpeare

I would not wish any companion in the world but you. And, of course, Thing One and Thing Two. #SeussSpeare

Big M, little m, what begins that way? Macbeth Macduff and murder, all in a Scottish Play. #SeussSpeare

Today was good, today was fun. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow are other ones. #SeussSpeare

He meant what he said and he said what he meant, faithful Iago's word is one hundred percent. #SeussSpeare

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the grickle-grass grows. #SeussSpeare

Lear's shoes are off, his feet are cold, he has a Fool he likes to hold. #SeussSpeare

"Regan doth not fear mere Lear sneers..."" #SeussSpeare

Cordelia is more near dear Lear's sphere. #SeussSpeare

I may be certain there's a Yurtain in my curtain, but I really might embarrass the old Polonius in my arras. #SeussSpeare

O is very useful, you use it when you say, obsessed Othello offed his obedient one and only today. #SeussSpeare

Who's that, who's there? I said, who's there? Is that Horatio on the stairs? #SeussSpeare

Rest now, prince, let angels sing. Fortinbras shall be our king. #SeussSpeare

Cup is up, Gertrude's down! Claudius heads out of town. #SeussSpeare

I lay there with Julie. We lay there, we two, and I said, "How I wish I had poison to drink." #SeussSpeare

Unbated and envenom'd, too? Tell me, Laertes, what you planned to do? #SeussSpeare

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

[PigsnieLite]

LOL. Certainly a better writer than Fry. Sadly, Fry's autobios arent all that hilartious.

[sunfrog]

I know how to end it!

Hi Avrils,
How do I write a book? I always have good ideas for books but I never know how to end them. This time I do. Do I start with an outline of how the story will go and where I'll introduce the characters or do I just start typing? I think it will write itself but I like to plan ahead. How do I go about starting. Don't tell me about editors and proof readers and all that. I'll ask you that when the book is finished.