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This AI program will tell you what books are similar to yours in style.
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Oct 04, 2012 07:18AM
Very coo;!! Thanks for the tip.This is great fun
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Interesting. When I put in sections from my novel I got everything from Anais Nin erotica to sports novels to children's books to a book on God. Hmmm. What does this mean?
Yeah, this tool was fun. Dima posted about it awhile back in another group. You can see my results here:http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...
I'm message #6.
Thanks again Dima.
LOL, it says my writing style is comparable to William Shakespeare, Lemony Snickett, Anthony Burgess, Joyce Meyer and Stephen King. Now if only my books become as successful as theirs.
I learned a lot about my (evidently eclectic) style: Like Piers Moore Ede, Azar Nafsi, Chinua Achebe, Ted Dekker and Ayelet Waldman. Somehow my total score exceeded 100%. Adding everything yileds 158%. Math was never my forte, but I wonder how that works?Best,
Pam
Yes, Alexis, that is right. My family and I have been playing with BooksAI for a few months now. The authors who come up most consistently for my writing are Harry Turtledove, Jean M. Auel, Robert Jordan, Phillip Pullman, Paul Hoffman, Stephen King, Raymond Feist, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Jack L. Chalker, Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, John Crowley, and Ellis Peters.
When I put in my collection of short stories i get the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Val McDermid, Harlen Coben, Rudyard Kipling. My closest match is 'A map of the world', by Jane Hamilton, which i have to admit, I've never heard of.
I tested this out and found to my amusement that I'd get wildly different answers depending on which chapter I'd throw in, which either means it's not very scientific or my writing scrambles all over the place. :) (Or maybe both.)So I actually plugged my whole novel in. Top four matches shown were science fiction and writers were PD James, Piers Anthony, Ian Whates, and Orson Scott Card. Card is probably my single favorite writer ever, so that was a rather enjoyable name to see.
I plugged in a few different chapters from the book I'm writing and I got Jodi Picoult, Alex Flinn, Patrick Ness, Pittacus Lore, Suzanne Collins, Kendare Blake, Lauren Henderson, Maggie Stiefvater, and Alyson Nol multiple times.Also got Lauren Oliver, Audrey Niffenegger, Patrica Wood, John Green, and Beth Revis a couple times.
Joshua Landy, Zadie Smith, Dante Alighieri, Leonardo DaVinci, Dean Koontz, Friedrich Nietzche, Alexander de Tocqueville, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, and Joseph Campbell.
I got a lot of Laurell K Hamilton- wish I sold books like her. Roger Hobb, Richard Laymon, Jane Elliott(that one had me shaking my head), and Orson Scott Card.
Okay, now I'm laughing. I tried Alex's "whole novel" idea and got more Laurell K Hamilton,Mickey Spillane, Gagliano, Hemingway, Deliverance by James Dickey, and under the celebrity autobiography category- Billie Holiday, Dogg the bounty hunter, Loretta Lynn, and Ozzy Osbourne. I'll be rolling that around in my head for a while.
Wow Ian...that is quite a diverse "crowd" you run with. Gotta admit it's fun and interesting to see what the software comes up with for similar writing styles.My whole book (386 pages) resulted in this:
73% Ralph Waldo Emerson
72% Dante Alighieri
71% Friedrich Nietzche
64% Joseph Campbell
Miles wrote: "My whole book (386 pages) resulted in this:73% Ralph Waldo Emerson
72% Dante Alighieri
71% Friedrich Nietzche
64% Joseph Campbell ..."
As long as your blurb doesn't say "A quick, light read!", this is great company.
Dima wrote: "We are going to roll out a new version incl technical analysis- genre distribution in %
- top 10 similar books in %
- author's style fluctuation within document
- fluctuation within genre etc
Interesting?"
Very.
@J.D.Ha ha! No, definitely not a quick, light read.
I was pleasantly surprised for certain, though I'm not patting myself on the back. Must be the subject matter I write about, along with the many quotes given, and perhaps a bit of my own writing style mixed in.
Dima wrote: "We are going to roll out a new version incl technical analysis- genre distribution in %
- top 10 similar books in %
- author's style fluctuation within document
- fluctuation within genre etc
Int..."
Sounds cool, roll it out!
Dima wrote: "We are going to roll out a new version incl technical analysis- genre distribution in %
- top 10 similar books in %
- author's style fluctuation within document
- fluctuation within genre etc
Int..."
Very interesting.
Here's an idea for a future feature: let authors who run searches elect to save the results and allow for reverse searches. So if I plug in Orson Scott Card as a writer whose style I like, the system will kick out a list of names (in rank order) who match that style. It's a different data point than we get from Amazon or B&N or others where the "also boughts" would tend to be genre-based matches, more than stylistic matches.
It IS fun, but baffling! I lost the link, but another site that tried to compare writing with authors I used, compared my writing with Thomas Hardy... or Maeve Binchy -- ??? then, Booksai just told me my new release is most like the DR. WHO series or Torchwood -- go figure. Now do I write a pitch saying my work is a mash-up of all four? LOL!
Yeah, and I got different results by posting different sections. Probably will improve as they grow. I'll pass on the link!
Wow, looks like I should be writing Dr Who novels!
You can try "I Write Like" too, iwl.me.That one reckons I write like Douglas Adams. That's a comparison I'm not going to complain about. :)
That one says I write like David Foster Wallace. Intriguing...
I tried Alex's whole book idea too, very fun. Apparently my writing style in my first book is:
75% Robert Jordan (Eye of the World)
71% Orson Scott Card
63% Raymond Feist
67% Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)
Meanwhile, my writing style in my latest books is more:
53% Elizabeth Duncan
52% Orson Scott Card
49% George R.R. Martin
44% Terry Brooks
42% Robin McKinley
41% Stephen King
I find it interesting that my more recent writing is similar to more authors I've never read (Duncan, Martin, and King)... I would have thought it'd be the other way around... unless it signifies that my writing style is becoming my own/unique. That would be cool. :)
Oooh, iwl.me says I write like J.K. Rowling... not gonna complain about that! :)
woooo. I'm not sure what it means... I iwl'ed my most recent book, and it said it was like (shudder...) Dan Brown. How'm I going to live that one down? Then the third book, which it said was like James Joyce (wtf???), then the second, which it said was like Kurt Vonnegut (ok, not so bad. One of my heroes, actually!), then the first, which it said... drumroll.... was like David Foster Wallace. Kind of a reverse progression or something.
Well, that certainly explains it. I feel much better. Thanks for the repreive!
