What's your cred?

[ksmith]

Michael Cassutt has a "Calculating Your Sci Fi Credentials" quiz in the current edition of Sci Fi Weekly. I scored a 50--first five questions were 10/10/10/10/10, then I fell off the map. I might be able to tackle the singularity definition, but it's like "lie/lay"--I can read that damned Strunk&White entry 50 times and the blasted difference still doesn't sink in.

35 to 65—You could be another Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis or Vonda McIntyre. You are aware of science and technology, but given a choice, will try to emphasize character and drama. This sort of story used to be known as speculative fiction. If you are a television series, you might be the original Star Trek, X-Files or the current Battlestar Galactica.

Anyway. I write 'spec fic'. I am quite happy with that.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

All you have to remember is that lay takes an object, except for just once: past tense for first and third person of lie.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I read it over and over and over...

There are certain words that I always misspell, too. It doesn't matter how often I look them up. The correct spelling looks wrong to me.

I'm a writer. I shouldn't have these sorts of word issues, but I do. Sometimes I feel like a muscian who has no grasp of theory.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Nah, i think we have brain holes. I consistently don't see when I've reversed letters, esp. when tired.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I've been misspelling the same words forever, which is very annoying. It's as though the incorrect spelling etched a path in my brain, and that particular neural connection can never be altered.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

I scored a 50 or a 60... I once thought that the Boy Scout Handbook was one of the greatest survival tools/writing resources available, but I'm not sure if it would be desert island material these days. So my last ten points depends on how I interpret my answer to 9.

Well, seems I'm in good company.