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ITT: Writers' favourite words.

H. G. Wells: "Tumultuous". Seriously, he uses it at least once per page in 'The War of the Worlds'.

>> No.2346584
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2346584

>>2346580

>> No.2346592

>>2346584
I tried writing like Bukowski and it told me I write like Stephen King.

>> No.2346593

>>2346592
It took me forever, believe me.

>> No.2346597

George Orwell's favourite word was "queer." Maybe that is Lovecraft's favourite word too (and it's synonyms strange and bizarre)

>> No.2346599
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>Abnormal
>Eldritch

>> No.2346609

>>2346599
>shew/shewed

>> No.2346614

>>2346584
Next try:
"Faggot faggot faggot
fucking
phonies"

You write like William Gibson.
haha wat

>> No.2346615
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>>2346599
>Cyclopean

>> No.2346642

>Decadent

>> No.2346646

J. G. Ballard: 'deliquesce'

...OK, it probably only shows up in one novel and one short story, but I think the total number of appearances in those justify it. Everything other page something be deliquescin'.

>> No.2346724

George R. R. Martin

"Nipples on a breastplate"

>> No.2346750

>>2346584
I got Clarke, Bradbury, DFW, and then H.P. Lovecraft like 3 times.

>> No.2346756

>>2346584
i write like dan brown. never read anything hes written. how unfortunate.

>> No.2346768

>>2346750
I think getting H.P. Lovecraft is pretty much a diss on your writing.

>> No.2346781

>>2346584

I used the first paragraph from two short stories. It told me the first was similar to Palahniuk and the 2nd to Nabokov.

not sure how to feel about that.

>> No.2346785

>>2346781

When I include more of the story, it tells me I write like Vonnegut.

>> No.2346803

>Be readin' China Mieville
> " Blah blah blah pugnacious blah blah blah
>cool word bro!
>next chapter
>blah blah blhady blah pugnacious blah
>oh he used that word again
>every chapter of every book of his I've read, something is pugnacious

Maybe it's just because that word isn't part of my everyday vocabulary and when I read it it sort of pops off the page- but he does seem to use it a lot. Don't get me wrong, China's a bro and one of my favourite writers, but now it's become a sort of thing where every time I read him I'm counting the pugnacious' Anyone know what I'm talking about?

>> No.2346894

Orwell uses "to and fro" in every single one of his novels.

>> No.2346904

Oscar Wilde - Tremulous

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lol

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>>2346914

>> No.2346951

>>2346584
I just copypasta'd about 5 or 6 journal entries and got H.P. Lovecraft every single time. I can't tell if that's good or not...

>> No.2346972

Kerouac likes 'lugubrious' and 'lugubriously.'

>> No.2346986

The English translation of Kafka's The Trial I read contained several instances of the word "oppressive", as in, "the oppressive air".

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>>2346992

>> No.2346999

>>2346986
i guess thats the translation for "erdrückend".

thats also the word the mood of his stories is commonly associated with.

maybe the same goes for Mievielle and "pugnacious" and Kerouac and "lugubrious".

>> No.2347012

>>2346999

Probably, it's "drukkend" or sometimes translated as "verstikkend" in Dutch. Probably translates to something like a heavy atmosphere? Like emotionally laden, not a pleasant environment in any case.

>> No.2347022

if I'm remembering correctly,Orwell used the word indefatigable like 20 times in 1984.

>> No.2347029

>>2346999
> maybe the same goes for Mievielle and "pugnacious" and Kerouac and "lugubrious"

LOL

>> No.2347054

GRRM:

"Must needs" this phrase seems to be growing exponentially throughout his series. The final book will just be titled must needs.

>> No.2347061

R. Scott Bakker

'preternatural'. All the time.

>> No.2347070

>paste in a horrible homage to Vonnegut I started for a class but ended up trashing and doing something entirely different
>You write like David Foster Wallace

Fuck, I've never even read DFW.

>> No.2347116

>>2347070

I put in the assignment I did hand in and got DFW again. Also, I realized that this wasn't the topic of the thread.

>>2347022

I remember Huxley using indefatigable in Brave New World a lot too.

>> No.2347129

Tolstoy - Hitherto

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might as well fucking kill myself right now.

>> No.2347139

>>2346646

>every other page somethin' be deliquescin'

I don't know why but that made me crack up.

Good on ya'.

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2347151

Analysed a poem I like that I wrote when I was 17. Fuck, apparently I write like an old woman.

>> No.2347154

>>2347151
I put in some of my poems - I got variously James Joyce, JK Rowling, and Chuck P.

>> No.2347153
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2347153

>phosphorescence

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Stuck in my three favourite paragraphs of my perpetually unfinished novel.

I'm very OK with this!

>> No.2347163

>>2347154

>The wizard farted, a long, wet, windy roar of the arse. It was magnificent, and I ... I was the wizard all along.

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... I'm OK with this.

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2347168

Some of you might remember this Irvine Welsh ripoff I posted a little while ago.

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>>2347168
Hmm. It got the country right at least.

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So, will I be worshipped on /x/?

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>> No.2347186

Using different samples from my writing I got DFW, Meyer, Vonnegut, Dickens, Clarke, and Cory Doctorow. Neat, I guess.

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I analysed two separate pieces and got Dickens both times.

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>>2347190

>> No.2347211

Enjoy Cancer. Enjoy aids.

>> No.2347219

>favourite
>u
every time

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>>2347211

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>>2347224

>> No.2347232

>>2347219
Welcome to the rest of the English-speaking world.


As for the topic, "Every word Ray Bradbury writes."

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>>2347249

>> No.2347249
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The following will offend a few of you. Sorry.

>> No.2347252

George R.R. Martin - Mummer, Farce, or any combination of the two.

>> No.2347253

>>2347249
I have never enjoyed Ray Bradbury and consider him very overrated.

>> No.2347254
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>gay

>> No.2347259

'atavistic', 'swine'. Guess who.

>> No.2347262

>>2346904

Adding to this: listless and languid

>> No.2347277

>Steven Lawhead
>jesu

>> No.2347298

>>2347251
I do not trust this application one bit. I p8unched in an complete chapter by Ray Bradbury once.
Got "H. P. Lovecraft" in return.

>>2347253
Honestly, I can't get into anything by Stephen King, nor Dan Brown, both of whom have been highly recommended to me.

>> No.2347324

Murakami - "kanojo"

>> No.2347332

>>2347324
For me Murakami is Cicada and "Cicada shells", they've been mentioned in passing in every work of his that I've read and I had no idea what they were until I looked it up.

>> No.2347709

Harry Turtledove: anyhow anyhow anyhow anyfuckinghow.

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>Salinger
>crummy

he only uses phoney in Catcher

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>Dune - Frank Herbert
>'presently'

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>Dostoevsky
>'and so on and so forth'

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>>2347719

>Franny and Zooey - J.S. Salinger
>'trifle'

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Fart

>> No.2347774
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cunt

>> No.2347782

>God
>God

>> No.2347799

HP Lovecraft - Betwixt

>> No.2347829
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pneumatic

>> No.2347844

>>2347799
I would have gone with: "Unimaginable", "Indescribable" ,"Horrifying". Seriously, I love his stuff but half of his descriptions are saying how the character can't describe whatever they're seeing.

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>>2347829
>pneumatic
Huxley, I presume?

>> No.2347877

>>2346599
You forgot Cyclopean

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>>2347853
>derp
no he meant rowling

>> No.2347880

>>2347877
>>2346615

>> No.2347890

>>2347877
and "angles"

>> No.2347898

>>2347890
And "non-Euclidean".

>> No.2347969

Dumas:
>"thunderbolt"

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FUCKTHISGAYEARTH

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>> No.2348017

Cut this fucking 'I Write Like:' bullshit out. It's as old as the sun and we all know it's completely randomized. Shut the fuck up and stop infecting other threads with your shit, newfags.

>> No.2348538

>Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Ignominy"

>> No.2348550

I got Jack London and James Joyce.
I got a socialist and an Irishmen. Fantastic!

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lol'd hard

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I wrote a few short paragraphs that could be the entry-point into an Elder Scrolls story. Looks like I write like "Neil Gaiman." Only book I recognize by him is Stardust.

>> No.2349082

Mary shelley: wretched

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I HAVE NOTICED THAT DAVID FOSTER WALLACE USED THE WORD "OVERHEAD" RELATIVELY OFTEN.

HE PROBABLY LIKED IT.

I LIKE IT VERY MUCH TOO, I DO NOT KNOW THE REASON. IT APPEALS TO MY SUBCONSCIOUS.

>> No.2349098

>>2349094
and picayune, the fuck is up with that

>> No.2349099

>>2349094
I want to slit your throat. :)