Experiments in style: mystery algorithm

What's the underlying set of rules?

Jun 22, 2025

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One of the things I’ve been trying out is reworking a piece of text into a completely different style. A full exposition and explanation are given here:

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Experimenting with styles

Introduction A good way of improving your writing skills is to try reworking texts into a completely different style or genre. To some extent this overlaps with parody writing, which I intend to explore in a separate post, but as a quick example, consider this. In Brand X Fiction, a collection of parodies of fiction writers…

3 years ago · 2 likes · 6 comments · Terry Freedman

For today’s experiment I’ve written the story in accordance with the rules of a particular algorithm. If you think you know what the algorithm is, you can either message me or leave a comment.

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