Who Do You Write Like?

Liam · 07-19-2010, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

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).

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I write like James Joyce.

Apocalipstic · 07-19-2010, 01:22 PM

I write like
Stephen King

Cool!

Corkey · 07-19-2010, 01:38 PM

Isaac Asimov

betenoire · 07-19-2010, 01:41 PM

I Write Like Arthur C. Clarke

JustJo · 07-19-2010, 02:17 PM

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.

Spirit Dancer · 07-19-2010, 06:38 PM

Two poems, two different authors.

I write like
James Fenimore Cooper
and
Patricia Cornwall

Kätzchen · 07-19-2010, 06:08 PM

I used several examples and the result was...

David Foster Wallace

tapu · 12-11-2011, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I used several examples and the result was...

David Foster Wallace

That's who *I* wanted! Fooey.

willow · 12-11-2011, 01:29 PM

I write like Stephen King.

I'll take that

WickedFemme · 12-11-2011, 02:09 PM

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,

1QuirkyKiwi · 12-11-2011, 04:13 PM

James Joyce - I like Avant-garde.

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

tapu · 12-11-2011, 05:30 PM

Whew. This second time I got David Foster Wallace. (Who committed suicide not that long ago.)

I had it analyze a blog post I wrote about a Halloween dummy who turned out really to be a dead person. Sounds like something "David" would write.

tapu · 12-11-2011, 05:31 PM

We all might as well just fold and look up Cory Doctorow. Maybe he's E.L.'s brother.

jac · 12-11-2011, 05:43 PM

So I got: I write like Chuck Palahniuk

*shrugs* Will research ol' Chuck later.

Mtn · 12-11-2011, 06:05 PM

I got Stephen King for my fiction writing and David Foster Wallace for my blog type writing.

Cid · 12-11-2011, 06:20 PM

I write mainly porn

So not really sure who to put for that.

jac · 12-11-2011, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Cid

I write mainly porn

So not really sure who to put for that.

Just submit a piece of some of your writing "porn" and it will tell you just like any other writing submission would . That's what I did and it said I wrote like Ann Rice. The crazy of that is, I love Ann Rice's writing.. I have a quote from her on my page actually lo

lhttp://iwl.me/

Cid · 12-12-2011, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by stone4play

Just submit a piece of some of your writing "porn" and it will tell you just like any other writing submission would . That's what I did and it said I wrote like Ann Rice. The crazy of that is, I love Ann Rice's writing.. I have a quote from her on my page actually lo

lhttp://iwl.me/

Apparently I write like David Foster Wallace. (I really don't know who that is, but I hope he's good)

Thank you for letting me know what to do with that. I have a bad habit of coming in in the middle of a conversation not knowing what the hell I'm talking about until someone says...'you don't know what the hell you're talking about, let me help you'..lmao.
So now I know...

jac · 12-11-2011, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stone4play

So I got: I write like Chuck Palahniuk

*shrugs* Will research ol' Chuck later.

This is so sweet... well, not this necessarily because I don't actually know the guy but my blog writing matches ^^^^^ his up there. My erotica writing matched this: I write like Anne Rice *smirk* Love it!!

Abigail Crabby · 12-14-2011, 06:27 AM

I write like
Vladimir Nabokov

and for some prose I submitted
I write like
David Foster Wallace

07-19-2010, 01:22 PM	#2
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07-19-2010, 02:17 PM	#5
JustJo Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: pushy broad Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Follow your heart; it knows things your mind cannot explain. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Southeast corner Posts: 5,633 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 24,417 Thanked 25,404 Times in 4,660 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	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. __________________ I'm not tall enough to ride emotional roller coasters

07-19-2010, 06:38 PM	#6
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07-19-2010, 06:08 PM	#7
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12-11-2011, 01:29 PM	#9
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12-11-2011, 02:09 PM	#10
WickedFemme Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Very Happily Married to Bobbi46 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: where I want to be Posts: 313 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 355 Thanked 994 Times in 221 Posts Rep Power: 7014692	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,

12-11-2011, 04:13 PM	#11
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12-11-2011, 05:30 PM	#12
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,115 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Whew. This second time I got David Foster Wallace. (Who committed suicide not that long ago.) I had it analyze a blog post I wrote about a Halloween dummy who turned out really to be a dead person. Sounds like something "David" would write. __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

12-11-2011, 05:31 PM	#13
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12-11-2011, 05:43 PM	#14
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12-14-2011, 06:27 AM	#20
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