Challenge - How Distinctive Is Your Writing?

[minsue]

Ok, so Trombie isn't the wildcard

Unless that was intentional...

 

[minsue]

The guessing so far, in brief, for anyone curious -

• The most accurate guesser got 28.5% correct.
  
• The most distinctive writer has been correctly marked by 26.6% of those guessing.
  
• An astounding 16.7% of writers have yet to be figured out even once.

(and if anyone can find a way to use this to their advantage, more power to 'em. )

 

[Guest]

ok, im going to stop guessing now. ive worked my headache up and its not pleasant. im going to enjoy reading the rest of group b and c and just enjoy everyone elses discomfiture.

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=minsue]The guessing so far, in brief, for anyone curious -

• The most accurate guesser got 28.5% correct.
  
• The most distinctive writer has been correctly marked by 19% of those guessing.
  
• An astounding 16.7% of writers have yet to be figured out even once.

(and if anyone can find a way to use this to their advantage, more power to 'em. )[/QUOTE]


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I am immensly curious and would love to know just how you calculated those statistics; acknowledging of course, again, the tremendous effort you have put forth thus far.

amazing!

amicus the always curious one?

 

[minsue]

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I am immensly curious and would love to know just how you calculated those statistics; acknowledging of course, again, the tremendous effort you have put forth thus far.

amazing!

amicus the always curious one?

I just fixed the 2nd one, I had screwed up and used the number of people writing not the number guessing *rolls eyes and smacks forehead*

For the first - divided the number of guesses said person got right by the total number of entries

For the second - divided the number of number of people who guessed the author correctly by the number of people who have guessed in total. (Since not everyone has guessed in every group, this could also have been done by only using the number of people who guessed in that group and likely would've been higher, but I chose to use the number guessing in total because it was easier. )

For the third - divided the number of writers who've yet to be correctly guessed by the total number of writers.

I make no guarantees of accuracy. I just did it for my own amusement & figured I might as well share.

 

[oggbashan]

What interests me about this exercise is not so much guessing the authors of each piece, because I have assumed that some of us tried to disguise our writing, but the variety of responses to the theme.

Almost every piece is an exemplar of how to write a short piece but the differences are amazing. There is a deep resource of talented writers here. I am surprised that Literotica authors haven't been approached more often by real publishers. Any publisher could read a variety of stories by an author and see what that author can do. The submission lists here are a goldmine compared with the slushpile of random manuscripts sent in by hopeful authors. Just because this is an erotic site doesn't mean that we can't write stories that aren't erotic. Some of us do, and Literotica shows only some of our output.

I think these short stories deserve a more permanent home than these threads. Perhaps next week's consideration should be 'Which of them should be included in an anthology?'.

Og

 

[minsue]

You're right, Ogg. The quality of these stories is amazing.

Imp had proposed posting them all under the Coming Together handle and putting them in Novels and Novellas.

 

[impressive]

I think these short stories deserve a more permanent home than these threads. Perhaps next week's consideration should be 'Which of them should be included in an anthology?'.

Og

Well, all told, there are just over 23K words in these submissions. I've already offered to compile them for a Lit submission under the Coming Together account (after all the guessing is done).

But, I'm also willing to farm out the "novella" to an ePublisher if there's interest. (Again, proceeds to our charity.)

 

[Guest]

Answer deadline is noon GMT on Friday. No edits after that point.

Friday 4AM neo time. Good, I can go back and edit some of my more WAGs to educated ones. The wildcards are really throwing me off.

 

[amicus]

Sighs...there is so much to this community that I never gave heed to, I feel inadequate just to watch...youse guys are great!

No, don't say anything, you will still hate my politics and I, yours, but it is pleasant to see beyond that occasionally....


amicus...

 

[damppanties]

Finished Batch A. Am kind of satisfied with what I did.

I don't think I'lll be able to guess beyond what I have in Group B, so that will get filled with wild guesses.

Haven't yet looked at Group C. Help me god.

 

[minsue]

it is pleasant to see beyond that occasionally....


amicus...

You're right, it is.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

You're right, it is.

<---heading for the bomb shelter

Min said "you're right" to Joe and Amicus in one week!
It MUST be a sign of the apocolypse!

 

[minsue]

<---heading for the bomb shelter

Min said "you're right" to Joe and Amicus in one week!
It MUST be a sign of the apocolypse!

Either that or I've just totally snapped.

 

[amicus]

I was too slow, as it took time to register that the earth shook and the Universe shudders when Min said Amicus said something right...I did not suspect that others would notice and throw a counter punch.

Well done, y'all.

I shall attempt to restrain such impulses in the future.

Chuckles, (Thanks Min, I needed that)

amicus...

 

[amicus]

<---heading for the bomb shelter

Min said "you're right" to Joe and Amicus in one week!
It MUST be a sign of the apocolypse!

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"...a·poc·a·lypse Pronunciation (-pk-lps)
n.
1.
a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation.
b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century b.c. to the second century a.d. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.
[Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, Apocalypse, from apokaluptein, to uncover : apo-, apo- + kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.]


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Sighs...Now why did I have to see that, why did I try for a couple posts to ignore it, why do I not want to offend Selena, but will anyway....


Because I am Amicus, I guess and you're not...


damn...but if I didn't point it out, would anyone?

amicus the reluctant virgin...

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Either that or I've just totally snapped.

Yeah... Sign of the apocalypse

 

[Selena_Kitt]

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"...a·poc·a·lypse Pronunciation (-pk-lps)
n.
1.
a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation.
b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century b.c. to the second century a.d. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.
[Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, Apocalypse, from apokaluptein, to uncover : apo-, apo- + kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.]


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Sighs...Now why did I have to see that, why did I try for a couple posts to ignore it, why do I not want to offend Selena, but will anyway....


Because I am Amicus, I guess and you're not...


damn...but if I didn't point it out, would anyone?

amicus the reluctant virgin...

Funny, I knew as I was typing it... in fact, my FIRST rendition was: apocylypse... and I looked and said, "Hm... that's not right... maybe it's an O"? so there it was... lol

BTW, that's why I have spellcheck, and beyond that, an amazing editor...

 

[amicus]

Thank you...I have come to learn to know...that if you can speak truth to those you respect and they remain friends, you may, just may, have found something valuable.

Were I to weight it on scale...I would be in doubt...


amicus...

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

I am all for the compiling into Coming Together, or even the E-book.

Would they go as they are currently with no expansion? (obv with a light edit) but i mean, would we be expected/allowed to expand a little?

~~ my guessing is going shite. I can't even guess people i talk to a lot and have read well of. So, erm...sorry to those i really should know haha!

~~ On ogg's repetitive point of disgusing the style- the point was to write typically of yourself, so as to see the distinctiveness of your work. I was intedning to write atypically of myself, till i clarified that point with Dampy.

I'd like to try to write completely atypically of myself, that'd be a personal challenge for myself...

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I never thought of changing my writing habit. I simply wrote. The hardest thing I had in writing was finding what to delete that didn't take away from the story. I don't feel my story is any different than my regular writing except it is missing things I was forced to keep out in order to keep it to 500 words.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I have changed my writing style for a project (a forum alt based on myself when I was ten years younger, he didn't seperate into paragraphs, or use ellipses, or paranthesis, and made a hell of a lot more typos, he also used less of my vocabulary, and used the wrong word from time to time, it was fun), but I didn't do that here.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Answer deadline is noon GMT on Friday. No edits after that point.

What?! This is going to take me months!
Re: anthology, I'd like to proofread mine at least before it goes into anything permanent-like

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Things are hotting up, Dampy and i have a small wager of which the 'prize's are a writting task that were set by each other some time ago if she's right then i write something, and if im right she writes something. Those 'something's are known to the two of us but i am not willing to reveal until the results are in lol

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Things are hotting up, Dampy and i have a small wager of which the 'prize's are a writting task that were set by each other some time ago if she's right then i write something, and if im right she writes something. Those 'something's are known to the two of us but i am not willing to reveal until the results are in lol

I have a wager like that with a friend on the outcome of the Super Bowl.