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So there’s a "Who do you write like?" meme making the rounds. You paste a chunk of text into the analyzer, and it tells you whose work your own most resembles. It’s supposedly based on word choice.

It is, in fact, based on something that comes out of the back end of a bull in all sorts of fascinating shades of brown.

I just ran the analysis several times, on different samples of my writing. Each was multiple pages in length. And I got a different author almost every time. Apparently I write like Margaret Atwood and Leo Tolstoy and Rudyard Kipling and Vladamir Nabokov. Five samples, four authors. (I got Atwood twice.)

These are all samples from the same novel.

So, yeah, I think I’m quite content saying that

A) I write like me, and

B) This "analysis," even for a silly little Internet gizmo, is more than a tad flawed. 😛

Got a new interview up at Innsmouth Free Press. There’s a lot of stuff here, and I think that whether you’re interested in my fiction or my RPG work (or both, one might hope), you’ll find something here.

So, my latest EN World column is up. In it, I ruminate a bit–with all love and respect to designers throughout the years 😉 –on something that I think no edition of D&D has ever entirely done to my satisfaction. (This despite the fact that I have barely the vaguest notion of how it should.)

And in which I also take a moment to doff my hat to Phil Athans, and thank him for the years of hard work he put in at WotC–and the opportunities he offered me personally.

And a new Suvudu column for your entertainment, edification, and enlightenment. (It also cures athlete’s foot and improves gas mileage. Results not guaranteed.) Today, I talk about secondary worlds, point out an area of fantasy where they’re not only not dominant, but almost utterly absent, and ponder a bit on why that is.

Best. New Who finale. Ever.

Yes, there are some holes, but not nearly enough to ruin my appreciation of the episode. And it’s got me absolutely hyped for next season.

More like this, please.

(More in-depth discussion, with spoilers, somewhere down the road.)

I’m trying to figure out if I’ve literally seen every bit of New Who footage. (I’m talking about actual broadcasts of episodes and the like, not stuff like Doctor Who Confidential. And right now, at least, I’m just looking for televised stuff, not audio dramas or written fiction.)

So, I’ve seen every proper episode of New Who, from Eccleston on. I’ve seen both "Time Crash" and the Children in Need special whose name I forget, but which took place right after the regeneration from Eccleston to Tennant. I’ve seen the two animated specials, "Dreamland" and "The Infinite Quest." (Neither of which were all that great, to be honest, but not awful.) And I’ve seen the two-part story of the Sarah Jane Adventures in which Tennant appeared as the Doctor.

So, am I missing anything? Is there anything else out there that stars/includes any of the three newest Doctors?