Fun little pubquiz. Which writing is whose? Lots of things can be inferred by looking at the author's writing style and this is mainly inspired by the fact that I almost always am able to guess who had written which "anonymously written" story. I plucked some small excerpts from several stories of different authors along with a brief analysis of their style. To spice it up, I've also written my own excerpts to emulate the each of the featured author's writing. Can you tell which one is fake and which one is real? I will do others in the future if I feel like it.
Mystic Warrior
Analysis: short sentences, lots of actions and not a lot of very intricate descriptions of environments. The prose is what can be considered as pretty beige. It's clear, simple and does what it needs to be done. It reads extremely easily and is easy to comprehend. Mystic often writes in first person, it's rare to see otherwise. With dialogue, it's actually very remarkable that you rarely have parts with only dialogue. Most of the time it's broken up with a few paragraphs of descriptions or action. She doesn't often use the word says, preferring to use a line of character acting instead.
It honestly reminds me a lot of the style one might find in a young adult novel.
In her later work this lack of conjunctions and words that connect other sentences together becomes less noticeable and frequent. It's a little more verbose, but never on the level that it would sacrifice readability.
Sometimes you get a very short sentence or even a single word as a paragraph. It's often used to emphasize very important moments. It has that kind of snappiness.
Lots of short stories are also very fairytale esque and always has a fleeting feeling of whimsy. Curse words are very rare. In general, the covered subjects are relatively family friendly, things never get very gory. In her previous old work, she also likes to use the phrase "all of a sudden" a lot.
Mystic Warrior excerpt A
“You misunderstand me: the decision has been made. I have a successor.”
The queen pales, her knuckles whitening around the sword. All around us, the soldiers lean in, holding their breath. And the emissary produces an inked feather-pen to inscribe a few words on a parchment.
Mystic Warrior excerpt B
I sneaked into the kitchen. Mother would yell at me if she caught me doing so. She said it was not proper for a lady to wander around at night. My chest burnt as old memories boiled over my thoughts. I rubbed off my tears. The memory of her melodious voice stung.
The room was empty.
Enterpride
Analysis: Not a lot of examples to pull from, but I've always considered him to be one of the most verbose authors. Lots of adjectives, difficult long word coupled with long ass sentences. It's more obvious in brimstone but I recall having seen it in treatise to heartly banners in a lesser extent. The same could be seen in his dialogue. Often the characters speak in a very formal tone, full sentences, proper grammar and no accents.
Enterpride excerpt A
"Then you and I are alike," she spoke after a long pause, wherein she rapidly changed passions like a chameleon does colors. "Are you certain she is here?"
"Absolutely," I affirmed.
"Then listen carefully. We now stand in the grand halls of the seventh plane of hell that bears the weight of the six planes of ice above and the six planes of fire below. I came awake on the shores, swam across that vile river, and was delivered to a group of hellspawn. They beat me and dragged me until they saw in me the stone that had first condemned me to the fourth plane.
Enterpride excerpt B
"One might think a man is foolish to keep pursuing a flower who blooms for another man. I sincerely hope that you relinquish this wasteful endeavor for once." Garreth polished his sword till it gleamed.
This leaves you in a state of rightful indignation. The rage almost spilled out of your balled fists. You were a mere powerless knight with no lands nor cities to call your own while this wretched cretin possessed bountiful fields of wheat that stretches as far as the eye can see. Isabella, no word of the gods could convince your otherwise that only you could be worthy for her hand.
Celicni
Yeah, simply indescribable. Very grimdark work, lots of violence, lots of heavy adult content and semi-eastern European names that are americanized. The use of sound effects and things like italics and EXCLAMATION MARKSMARKS are used pretty often. Word choice is very rough. Cel often likes to use curse words in dialogue and in his prose. Compared to the other two, his prose is one of the more informal ones with lots of colloquial terms thrown in.
Paragraphs are often on the longer side.
Excerpt A
Your legs are on her arms so she is completely helpless here. You enjoy the warm feeling for a couple of minutes until she stops moving. Good job, you just killed a young girl with your dick. You must be proud.
You are suddenly exactly where you wished for, but your body is not your own. It feels heavy and stiff. You realize you're now INSIDE of the guard, controlling him directly. You hear shouts from the other guards:
"WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT BASTARD GO!?"
"HE JUST DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR!"
