hours of fun...
A link to a, something, algorithm, that purports to tell you who you write like.
https://iwl.me/
I tried the opening of Penric and got Jane Austen, and the opening of Shards of Honor and got Arthur Clarke. Well, they're both British...
Shall have to try some more samples, when I have time.
Snicker, L.
https://iwl.me/
I tried the opening of Penric and got Jane Austen, and the opening of Shards of Honor and got Arthur Clarke. Well, they're both British...
Shall have to try some more samples, when I have time.
Snicker, L.
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Aug 04, 2015 09:53PM
I've always considered your style similar to Austen, I don't know what criteria that site uses but your books always paint vivid pictures because they are marbled with nonverbal as well as verbal communication. Also, I think your sense of humor is similar.
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You ruined my day. I tried your link and discovered that I write like Arthur Clarke as well ! Now I can't stop thinking I could have a great career as sf writer...
Lafayette wrote: "You ruined my day. I tried your link and discovered that I write like Arthur Clarke as well ! Now I can't stop thinking I could have a great career as sf writer..."Heh. I've a suspicion the program picks up certain SF-nal keywords and, Clarke being the only SF writer the creators ever heard of, dumps everyone who uses them into the same bin.
Ta, L.
Hmm. I put in the first paragraph of my Annual Report. It said I wrote like Conan Doyle. I put in the second paragraph. I wrote like Lovecraft.
They need a better reference database. It should say you write like Lois McMaster Bujold. Short sighted of them. :-)
Zadrik wrote: "They need a better reference database. It should say you write like Lois McMaster Bujold. Short sighted of them. :-)"That was actually what I'd been hoping for, but no such luck. I suspect the programmers have never heard of me.
Ta, L.
I'm writing a multiple POV novel right now. Depending on whose viewpoint I use for this analysis, I write like either H. P. Lovecraft, Dan Brown, or James Joyce. I find the last one especially amusing, since I've never yet made it all the way through anything he wrote.Zadrik's quite right, btw.
Programmers that have not heard of you. I am not saying its impossible. That is, if it is just one programmer. A group of programmers not knowing you? Now that seems implausible.
I write likeArthur Conan Doyle
ROFLMAO
If I read any Sherlock Holmes it has been a really long time.
I suspect, like others, that the database of possible writers is somewhat limited, but it's definitely a good time-sink. Most of my fanfic seemed to come out as H.P. Lovecraft (never read any of his stuff) except my Harry Potter story, which got me 'You write like J.K. Rowling' (Score!)My original (unfinished) novels in varying genres got me everyone from J.R.R. Tolkien to Jane Austen, via Arthur Clarke and some American essayist I've never heard of. Sadly, no Georgette Heyer or Robin Hobb (or Lois McMaster Bujold), any of which would have made me quite chuffed. I shall choose to believe they were not included by the programmers. :)
I did some different pieces of a page or two each, and got Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Arthur Clarke, James Joyce, HP Lovecraft. In some cases I deleted several paragraphs tried again and got a different author than for the whole piece...Now, it's entirely possible that my writing style is all over the place, but I suspect there's a lot statistical analysis can't tell us about creative writing.
Maya wrote: "I did some different pieces of a page or two each, and got Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Arthur Clarke, James Joyce, HP Lovecraft. In some cases I deleted several paragraphs tried again and got a di..."Or that their program is complete random rubbish. Good statistical analysis might reveal interesting things, but I don't think that's what's going on here. This seems about as predictive as a Magic 8 Ball, and for the same reasons.
Ta, L.
I totally love it! I pasted in one of my poems and the results said I write like Jonathan Swift. The poem could be viewed as Swiftian. Lois, it's more fun than a Magic 8 ball. We can pretend to be anybody. It's like acting--today I'm Swift; tomorrow I may be Austen. I wonder if I can be Graham Greene?
This just gets better. With poem #2, I'm Oscar Wilde. Just wait until I paste in some of my students' incomprehensible essays.
