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[erastes]

I'm rather offended that my Flesch Reading thingy for Junction X is 85.

I write like a moron.

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[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

Still reads more complicated than Hemmingway. Complexity is as much in the ideas as in big words and sentence length.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I write pre-school gay porn.

*sob*

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Oh, you do not. You've got a fabulous vocabulary - puts mine to shame. I'm sure my stuff would end up somewhere around the level of Green Eggs and Ham.

Is there a website that rates your writing?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bollocks to put it mildly. Anyone will concur that you are far superior.

If you use the word count option in Google Docs it rates you on various readability scales.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Nah, just did about 7 of my files and the highest I got was 84.59. So see, no bollocks!

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid of running Masks through that thing. With GF, I'd probably get a result that goes something like "You're a pompous lout. Shut up."

OT - dude, look (http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/currenttitles/hiddenpassion/hiddenpassionbuynow.htm). It's finally out. I got a copy last night, but it won't be sent out till October 5 (apparently print copies are signed copies, hence the longer wait).

I'm backed up a bit on my reviews for Speakitsname because of my writing, but I'll catch up as soon as I can. Did you want me to review A Hidden Passion, or would you rather do it? Either way's fine with me. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm quite happy for you to do it, hun. No hurry - I am still struggling with a discussion on horrible covers.

:)

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

Hah - my Flesch reading grade for my novella was 3.5. Which meant you could have left school half way through forth grade and still be able to read it.

Why any fourth grader would even want to read about sex in space, I have no idea :)

Have read

[girluknow.livejournal.com]

somewhere that the most successful authors (in the US specifically) write at a sixth grade level and that some publishers encourage it. Another twenty years and it'll be "See Dick suck--" (well, that would be redundant, I guess (g))

What disturbed me more than my initial eighties score over a block of my dialogue was my thirty-points-higher score over a chunk of exposition. Should readability be differing that much in a single work? Blech.

But I don't want books I read for fun to be impossibly complex. Maybe we should be glad we're so readable. We *could* be more complex if we wanted. I'm sure it's better that our focus is on telling a good story. :)
You, for one, are already excellent at that, so in my mind it really makes the Flesch scores issue moot.