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52 Author Pickup

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HISTORY
This is an old, old pet project. Needless to say, it didn't go anywhere, but I am reviving it in a community setting anyway. *g* If you'd like to join in, please feel free! Membership is open and posting access is unrestricted.

The basic idea behind

52author_pickup is to write about an author using the style of that author. Originally, I'd planned to write one paragraph per author per week, with 52 different authors covered by the end of the year.

Hence, "52 Author Pickup".

This was harder than I'd anticipated. Not all authors had recognizeable styles. The ones who did were often hard to imitate. One paragraph doesn't sound like a lot, but the reality was that unless I was very familiar with an author's style, I struggled with even one sentence. There was also an element of "what's the point" to this. Why was I trying so hard to sound like someone else, when I could be more productively sounding like me?

I guess it was the challenge.

PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNITY
This is a community for writing about authors. The content can be anything you like: short blurbs? book reviews? excerpts from the unauthorized biography? All of these are fair game. You can write a paragraph, half a page, even a page or more though please note that livejournal has a limit of around 11,000 words per entry (God forbid).

Whatever you write, you must come as close as you can to duplicating the writing style of the author you are focusing on. This is the community's only and most important rule.

Oh, and if you do write a 11,000 word entry, please put it behind a livejournal cut.

QUESTIONS?
Ask them here.

Interests:

7: authors, books, challenges, distinct writing styles, writing, writing challenges, writing exercises

Maintainers:

1: sub_divided

Members:

3: sub_divided, tarigwaemir, team7

Watched by:

2: sub_divided, team7

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Basic Account

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