Friday, August 17, 2012
What Kind of Writer Am I?
You’re a Ernest Hemingway. You chose clear and unflashy words that get right to the point. Other writers known for this style are George Orwell and Raymond Carver. Try your hand at a six-word memoir, consider a career in journalism, and maintain an active Twitter account.
Sounds about right.
August 17th, 2012 at 10:03 am
I, too, am Hemingway, supposedly. Only I think I tend to use more semicolons than he ever did (though it’s been awhile), so I’m not sure word choice is a fair metric.
August 17th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Well, IIRC, there were only four choices. And would you really want to end up as Nabokov?
August 17th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I’d agree that word choice is not a fair metric, as a quiz that puts Eric’s writing style and mine in the same category is clearly not accounting for some other factors.
The other issue is word choice is affected by what feeling am I trying to evoke in the story? Pompous? A Folksy? B Direct? C Incomprehensible? D
August 17th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I’m Toni Morrison. Cool.
August 18th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
I still need to read Nabokov–I have to confess I’m woefully ignorant of his work aside from maybe an excerpt in Playboy a few years ago.
But seeing as how Nabokov’s regarded in some quarters as the greatest novelist of the English language, sure, why not?
August 18th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Except for the whole creeped out by the pedophilia thing. Which freaks me the fuck out.