Saturday, November 27, 2010

Me and Margaret and Ian

Should Bristol Palin host a talk show? Should Danny DeVito play for the NY Knicks? Starting a blog with two questions indicates a certain lack of vitality. If one has things to say, why end with a question mark. And speaking of my writing temperature… I took my writing temp… or profile.. or analysis via a computer program called “I Write Like.” Try it for yourself! Here is the link (http://iwl.me/) The program asks you to paste in a few paragraphs of your writing and then tells you which famous writer you most resemble.

First time I showed up as Margaret Atwood, my prose correlated most closely to Ms. Atwood. Not a bad writer to be compared to and she’s very ecologically minded. Then I ran another writing sample of several paragraphs, through the computer and I correlated to Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame. That seemed a bit more masculine, you gotta love 007, at least I did back in the Sean Connery era. And I did read Fleming’s books in my teenage years and found Bond to be very compelling. Knew his guns, his liquor, his way around a woman. So that’s my starting point, Margaret Atwood and Ian Fleming.