I Write Like

Mar 11

“One doesn’t choose the style. You can investigate and try to discover what the best style would be for a theme. But the style is determined by the subject, by the mood of the times. If you try to use something that is not suitable, it just won’t work.” — Gabriel García Márquez

Jun 06

Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

May 28

The first rule of Write Club

Feb 20

Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?

Feb 09

Sorry for some downtime — there was something wrong with the server. The site is back up.

Jan 17

Stop censorship

On January 18 “I Write Like” will be blacked out to protest SOPA and PIPA, two proposed online censorship legislations in the US.

You can read about these bills here.

Sep 08

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg founder

Jul 27

"I Write Like" open sourced -

I’m happy to announce that, as promised, the full source code for “I Write Like” is available under the ISC-like license (in short: do whatever you like, just mention the author).

IWL is written in Racket programming language. Happy hacking!

Jul 10

“I Write Like” is 1 year old!

“I Write Like” is 1 year old!

Jun 21

The Curve

LA Times blogger Carolyn Kellogg wrote an article called “Independent author John Locke joins Amazon’s million-Kindle-seller club, but at what cost?” which includes ignorant claims such as:
“Locke makes less money with his 99-cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.”

Are you sure he’d sell the same number of books? Why didn’t he price his books at $100 then?

Dear Carolyn, may I point you to this very useful article on Wikipedia: Supply and demand. Look at the curve. Read the explanation. I’m sure what you learn from it will improve your future articles and prevent you from writing bogus claims.

Regards,
Dmitry