I Write Like

Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:16:00 -0500

Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?

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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:15:16 -0500

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

Stop censorship

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:30 -0500

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.

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg founder

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:08:16 -0400

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg founder

"I Write Like" open sourced

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:39:00 -0400

"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!

“I Write Like” is 1 year old!

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:18:22 -0400

“I Write Like” is 1 year old!

The Curve

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:45:00 -0400

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

Introducing "I Read Like"!

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:31:00 -0400

Introducing "I Read Like"!:

After the half a year of development, we are glad to announce the availability of our new analyzer — “I Read Like”.

Check which famous reader you read like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your reading style and compares it with the style of the famous readers.

Analyze your reading »

Update: April Fool’s!

The Very Rich Indie Writer

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:09:46 -0500

The Very Rich Indie Writer:

Amanda Hocking is 27 years old. She has 9 self-published books to her name, and sells 100,000+ copies of those ebooks per month.

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and..."

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:57:49 -0500

“If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

- Ernest Hemingway

Mémoires in the Mac App Store

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:02:00 -0500

Mémoires in the Mac App Store:

The best diary program is now available via the Mac App Store.

Get it!

Personal diary vs Blogging

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:36:51 -0500

Personal diary vs Blogging:

“Blogging has become increasingly popular during the last few years. People of all ages enjoy this relatively new trend. However, there are some reasons why you may decide that keeping a personal diary is preferable to blogging.”

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"The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write."

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:12:47 -0500

“The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write.”

"I Write Like" is available in Chrome Web Store

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:01:27 -0500

"I Write Like" is available in Chrome Web Store:

Install the shortcut right into your browser for quick access.

Special offer for "I Write Like" users

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:19:00 -0500

Special offer for "I Write Like" users: $5 off when purchasing Mémoires, our journal or diary software for Mac OS X.

Learn more about the app.

Use this link to buy Mémoires with the discount

I Write Like updated

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:28:00 -0500

Version 8 released. It’s rewritten from scratch and includes changes to the word extraction algorithm, so results may differ from previous versions.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:42:07 -0500

Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday

It's November. Start writing.

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:23:15 -0400

It's November. Start writing.

In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:17:25 -0400

In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece:

“Or maybe not. As writers prepare for National Novel Writing Month, Andrew Johnson looks at classics that were knocked out in a few weeks.”

Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:53:05 -0400

Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes:

By Stephen King

“You want to write a story? Fine. Put away your dictionary, your encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket. The only things creepier than a thesaurus are those little paperbacks college students too lazy to read the assigned novels buy around exam time. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. You think you might have misspelled a word? O.K., so here is your choice: either look it up in the dictionary, thereby making sure you have it right - and breaking your train of thought and the writer’s trance in the bargain - or just spell it phonetically and correct it later. Why not? Did you think it was going to go somewhere? And if you need to know the largest city in Brazil and you find you don’t have it in your head, why not write in Miami, or Cleveland? You can check it … but later. When you sit down to write, write. Don’t do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.”

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