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so on this thread, just post writing that’s in the style of an already-existing writer – go all British like P. G. Wodehouse, or quirky like Edward Eager, or whatever you like! go wild and have fun:)
(but make sure not to plagiarize, of course, and attribute the style to its correct author:) )
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If you have ever had a cat, you probably know that they are very versatile creatures. Versatile is a word which here means, “able to lie in your lap, then suddenly maul you with their claws, then forget you ever, ever, ever existed.” This word would also apply to the Smaudelaire orphans, who are so unlucky that they must lie in each n
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Would I be correct in assuming this is Lemony Snicket?
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If you know Jeeves, you know that he is a jolly precise sort of butler, the sort who will shimmy in with your egg just so on a platter, and both shoes on with his shoelaces tied, and his collar extraordinary. Jeeves is a marvel of a man, really, and you can dispute it all you like. My Aunt Agatha disagrees, but then Aunt Agatha is what one would call a Tallyho, and not the sort of expert one wants on things like this.
It was a fine spring morning when Jeeves said to me that I had better get married.
“Oh no, Jeeves!” I exclaimed, bounding five feet up in the air the way the chaps do in the operas when they’re told they have lost the ring and they must get it back before midnight. “Married!”
Jeeves smiled a precise smile.
“It is April Fool’s Day, sir,” he said, and shimmied gently out of the room.
Which just goes to show what a lovely thing it is to be precise, and to always know exactly what day it is, so that you can tell your employer silly things – or, in my case, not get alarmed when your butler tells you it is time to be married.
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The style is P. G. Wodehouse, of course:)