Category: Miscellaneous
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The free starter site was great, but I want to use plug-ins to help improve my writing.
I don’t know how to tell followers to switch over other than this post. I appreciate that you have followed me and hope that you will continue to do so.
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Thanks!
The Bestseller Code by Archer & Jockers
The Best Seller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers (c 2016)
Fascinating book and not what you might think. I saw it on Book TV I think and was interested because it is not some cheesy How To writers guide, but actually is about CODING: As in computer algorithms and natural language processing.
This book presents the findings of numerous algorithms the authors ran analyzing all aspects of novels: style, character, plot and more. The really amazing and surprising bits were some of the details that made a difference, including the use of “very” (bad) versus “really” (best). Even the use of “the” and “of” can be a definitive difference between bestseller and bust.
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