RWA Golden Heart Finalists

I'm crossing my fingers for TWO people who are Golden Heart Finalists in Romance Writers of America's 2010 annual contest. These fellow MRW members of mine just might become winners in tomorrow's Award Ceremony.

Heather Snow is a finalist in the Regency Historical Romance category for her story, SWEET ENEMY.

and

Elisabeth Burke is a finalist in the Historical Romance category for her manuscript, THE HEALER.

I'm so happy for them. They're both wonderful people and talented authors, so cross your fingers with me.

Good luck Heather and Elisabeth!!!

Who do you write like?

Here's a fun experiment. Check out the site I WRITE LIKE and give them a sample of some of your writing. They'll then tell you which famous author you supposedly write like. I had to do it a few times. The first three times, I wrote like James Joyce.

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

The fourth time, I was all Stephen King.

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Now if they only told me HOW I write like these stars, that'd be really cool, because seriously..."The last section of James Joyce's Ulysses, Molly Bloom's soliloquy consists of two sentences. The first one is 11,281 words long, and the second is 12,931 words long (wikipedia)."

I don't know about you, but I really don't want to be known as the run-on sentence queen. But if I wrote like Joyce because he was such an influential leader in creating the modernist novel, then okay, I could deal.

And what's up with Stephen King? I read his On Writing book and totally loved it. The man is truly a talented writer. But do I resemble his style because he has an awesome way with words or because my story is creepy and dark?

Things that make you go Hmmm.

Who do you write like? Do you agree?

Friday Forwards - #13

It's Friday Forwards time again (my sharing with you of fun emails I get forwarded to me). Today's forward originates from Cambridge University.

From Cambridge University.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid : aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

**If you have some great jokes you receive on your emails, please feel free to forward them to me at Linda(at)Linda Kage(dot)com and I'll make sure they get posted (but they have to be clean--public forum here, remember!!).