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Stolen Pixels courtesy of the funny folks at the Escapist.

Got Stumble Upon for Firefox yesterday, and I absolutely LOVE it! I've come across so much awesome stuff, I never even realized how much awesome shit was on the internet. Astounding really.

Well, I'm not internet savvy enough to make the badge thing show up here, I found this sweet writing analysis thing. Put a work in progress of mine into it, it tells me I write like H.P Lovecraft. ^.^ So AWESOME!

Looking forward to sharing my discoveries with whoever is reading out there. Thanks for listening all, having a disembodied ear to talk into is really quite therapeutic.

Eight rules for writing fiction:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

-- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10.

For all budding/struggling writers out there.

One of these days I'll stop feeling like I'm wasting time, or that I have too many things begging for my attention.