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I Write Like Arthur C. Clarke

I write like Cory Doctorow.............

I tried it with 3 different pieces of writing....came up twice with Stephen King and once with Margaret Mitchell.

Seems like a stretch from "The Stand" to "Gone With the Wind"...but then I always knew there was more than one voice in my head. :jester:

I got Chuck Palahniuk as well.

I write like
H. G. Wells

at least we're all Irish

I analyzed a post and got Bram Stoker.

Analysis of a poem yielded James Joyce.

I write like a 19th c. Irishman?

:clover:

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Originally Posted by Mister Bent (Post 156861)

I analyzed a post and got Bram Stoker.

Analysis of a poem yielded James Joyce.

I write like a 19th c. Irishman?

:clover:

Must be the luck of the Irish! Are you Irish, MB?

William Shakespeare

Cuz I look good in stockings and pantaloons?
:hamactor:

I used several examples and the result was...

David Foster Wallace

Two poems, two different authors.

I write like
James Fenimore Cooper
and
Patricia Cornwall

Quote:

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow (Post 156540)

I WRITE LIKE...

Apparently, this site has gone viral and it determines, based on a passage of your own prose, which famous writer you most write like--thought it might be fun to pass on!

From their website:

Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.

Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).

On my first try (just a small paragraph), I got Raymond Chandler but I am going to try again with a longer piece.

Interesting....

I write like Cory Doctorow, who is someone I know nothing about. Oh, and Stephen King.

I put a part of one of my short stories in for the first one and my poetry for the second.

This is the piece that apparently reads like Stephen King to them:

crimson streaks
paint the sheets
smudges in garnet
decorate the bed
red-rimmed eyes
gaze without sight
burgundy wine
spilled in the fight
one ruby shoe
alone on the stoop
colors of rage
taint this day
control takes the stage
and there's nothing more to say

I write like...Margaret Mitchell??

Well, we're both Atlantans. Oh, and the piece I put in has the words "Atlanta" AND "corsets".....hmmm.... I think I'm cracking the algorithm for this program....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Semantics (Post 156561)

Vladimir Nabokov.

Well, we're both Russian.

I'm a Nabokov knock-ov, too!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kätzchen (Post 156880)

I used several examples and the result was...

David Foster Wallace

That's who *I* wanted! Fooey.

I write like Stephen King.

I'll take that :)

David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, an experimental contemporary of William T. Vollmann, Mark Leyner and Nicholson Baker and a clear influence on younger tour-de-force stylists like Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer,

James Joyce - I like Avant-garde.

Cory Doctorow - I had to Google him as I've not heard of him.

I write like William Shakespeare.

Irish maybe?

I do not see any ode's in my submittal. *scratches my head*

I write like
Gertrude Stein
I used an emotional blog and it came back Gertrude Stein.

From Wikipedia:
Gertrude Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (merged with Pittsburgh in 1907)[2] to well-educated German Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein. Her father was a railroad executive whose investments in streetcar lines and real estate made the family wealthy.

This screams of irony. I live in Old Allegheny, Pittsburgh
and my Grandmothers name was Gertrude. Hmmm.