Saw http://www.intrepidmedia.com/column.asp?id=4212 earlier today and thought it was awesome.  Blog post showing how you can use Princess Bride quotes to explain publishing.

Neat kinda writing analyzer thingie that tells you who you write like.  I pasted chunks from my current WIP and got Dan Brown, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood.  Other stories came up with Lewis Carroll, Arthur C Clarke, and Ursula K LeGuin.  So, who do you write like?

Not so much about how to write, but just about writing.  I went to the bookstore the other day, and browsed through the writing section, which I do sometimes when I get bored.  I came across a couple books that kinda kicked my mind into overdrive.  Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, and I forgot the title of the other, but it's by Terry Brooks.  Neither is really much about how to go about writing, but more just about how they write and some of the things that affected them.  Somewhat similar to King's On Writing.  Figured I'd mention them and maybe they'll be helpful to others.

Few others I bought but haven't read yet, Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maas, Janet Evanovich's book about how she writes(don't remember the title), and some book called Write.  I skimmed the Evanovich book, and the one thing I pulled out of that was that she doesn't outline, she storyboards.  Silly little word change to some, but for others, like me, that could be a huge change that makes it easier to do.  The write book was something about making the left and right brain work together to overcome writer's block, but from doing the little exercises in the first few chapters, I don't seem to have the sort of problem that's geared toward.  Though out of that, I got the setting word count goals for a reward, and wrote almost 1400 words this week, and now my b/f's going to take me out to eat.

Anyone got 'em?  Like anything you have to do, or specific place to write, or whatnot?

My biggest one is that I have to write by hand on paper.  And then type it up.  I've been told that what I write on the computer is more stilted than otherwise.  Or rather, my b/f pointed out one passage, compared to another that was much more organic and flowing, and that was the biggest difference.

I have a pop culture reference in part of my story, and I've been told it's too obscure.  Do any of ya'll get it from this little snippet of dialogue?

"Are you an angel?"
"What in all the hells are you on?"
"I think I've seen Star Wars too many times."