There's this great and fun writing analysis program HERE - you enter a section of your own writing and the tool analyses and claims to name the author your style most resembles. And so I entered a section from my WORK IN PROGRESS, the as yet untitled second Frank Parade novel and I was told I write like James Joyce - really, never read any Joyce.
I then tried the program again and this time entered text from my second Jack Martin western, Arkansas Smith and this time was told I write like Jonathan Swift.
I then decided to try it one more time and I entered a page from my novel The Tarnished Star and was told I write like Raymond Chandler - hey, I can live with that.
Then for my final test I entered the opening paragraph of Raymond Chandler's, The Big Sleep and was once again told I write like James Joyce, or rather Chandler did so from the results of this analysis tool I'm more like Chandler than Chandler was.
LATER ON THE ARCHIVE PART TWO OF TERRY HARKNETT'S, WRITING WESTERNS
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Thursday, 15 July 2010
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