Writing Challenge ~ Who Do You Write Like?

[Booknut, Head Moderator]

I found this on Tumblr.

And yes, it's weird. But you'll love it, trust me!

So apparently there's this website called 'I Write Like'. You type in random sentences, words - ANYTHING YOU WANT - and then press the 'analyse' button. The site will then tell you which famous author you write most like and whose style is similar to yours.

Now for the funny bit :D

Someone posted up the funniest answer when they typed in the words:
"nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, I'm a 100% nigga, nigga." Can you guess which author turned up?!!

If you CAN'T then try it out here: http://iwl.me/

Also, please try out other weird, funny, and random writing styles in there and let me know which authors you guys come up with - does anyone get JK Rowling? Tolkien? Because those would be seriously cool!!

:D Booknut

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(Five seconds later...)

Guys!! I got NEIL GAIMAN!! *squeals* That officially just made my day :)

[[deleted user]]

I got P.G. Wodehouse. I don't know much about him - anyone got any idea why I write like him?

[Zohal, Co-Moderator]

Apparently I write like Arthur Clarke. A person I have never heard of. This is SO cool.

[Booknut, Head Moderator]

(Secret side note: nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, I'm a 100% nigga, nigga = STEPHANIE MEYER.

Hmm. How?!

I wonder if that's, like, the secret underlying code beneath the pages of Twilight or something. Because I'm pretty certain those words did not turn up in ANY of her books.)

[[deleted user]]

Stephanie Meyer?

[Booknut, Head Moderator]

βιβλιοφάγος (a.k.a. Cat) wrote: "Stephanie Meyer?
"

I know!!

[Mark]

I put some of my NANO novel into this, and the answer came up as Margaret Atwood.
Other authors which came up as I put more pages of other non NANO novel writing in, Jane Austen twice. Others, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, Mark Twain twice, Ian Fleming, L. Frank Baum, even Stephanie Meyer once. Putting more writing in, each one of these authors names kept coming up. I just got Anne Rice, J.R.R Tolkien. Ursula K. Le Guin

[[deleted user]]

Never heard of her... or Neil Gaiman.

[Ashleigh]

I copied and pasted an English anecdote I wrote this year and it came up that I write like Vladimir Nabokov. He wrote Lolita and such books. It's really interesting that I write like him. I wonder if that's foreshadowing that I'll enjoy his books when I read them?

[Melissa]

Oh sweet! I put in a little blurb from a short story I wrote and it says I write like Stephen King! That just makes my day XD

[Anna]

Booknut wrote: "(Secret side note: nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, I'm a 100% nigga, nigga = STEPHANIE MEYER.

Hmm. How?!

I wonder if that's, like, the secret underlying code beneath the pages of Twilight or some..."

Har Har I literally just choked on my cookie when I read that!! :D Oh Stephanie Meyer!

[Rachel]

I posted a chapter of my book and got William Shakespeare!

[[deleted user]]

*claps loudly for Rachel*

[Melissa]

That's so cool!

[Monique]

Ha, I guess I write like Jane Austen:)

[[deleted user]]

*onerous voice* Both of you are destined to become great, magnificent authors.

[L]

What a fantastic test!!!

I got...

H. P Lovecraft

Jumping up and down with excitement.



One of the greatest fantasy and sci-fi writers ever *faints* :)

[Betty]

I got Neil Gaiman. Needless to say, I'm very flattered.

[Althea *Go wolves and dragons!*(Coach Hedge)]

Harry Harrison? I don't know who this guy is but I think he writes Sci-fi...

[Althea *Go wolves and dragons!*(Coach Hedge)]

Lucinda wrote: "What a fantastic test!!!

I got...

H. P Lovecraft

Jumping up and down with excitement.





One of the greatest fantasy and sci-fi writers ever *faints* :)"

He...he...nice gif.

[Booknut, Head Moderator]

Lucinda wrote: "What a fantastic test!!!

I got...

H. P Lovecraft

Jumping up and down with excitement.





One of the greatest fantasy and sci-fi writers ever *faints* :)"

*laughs* Gosh, gotta love Neville!

[Clarté]

Oh, oh, I saw this on tumblr the other day too! I tried it and according to it, I write like James Joyce. o.o

[johanna (jo)]

... I sent in the prologue of a story I'm writing and I got ... who was it? Whats-his-name Kipling. The poet?

[Olivia]

I got J. D. Salinger....Not sure who that is?

[Althea *Go wolves and dragons!*(Coach Hedge)]

Search his name here in GR.

[[deleted user]]

Eden wrote: "Oh, oh, I saw this on tumblr the other day too! I tried it and according to it, I write like James Joyce. o.o"

I typed in another thing that I worked on and got him too! :)

[[deleted user]]

ງດໂາຊກກຊ wrote: "... I sent in the prologue of a story I'm writing and I got ... who was it? Whats-his-name Kipling. The poet?"

Rudyard Kipling.

[Olivia]

Althea *Go wolves and dragons!* wrote: "Search his name here in GR."

I will:)

[Althea *Go wolves and dragons!*(Coach Hedge)]

: D

[Olivia]

J.D. Salinger:) Author of Catcher in the Rye:)


I definitely should have known that...

[johanna (jo)]

βιβλιοφάγος (a.k.a. Cat) wrote: "ງດໂາຊກກຊ wrote: "... I sent in the prologue of a story I'm writing and I got ... who was it? Whats-his-name Kipling. The poet?"

Rudyard Kipling."

That's right, thanks :)

[Sasha Ivashkov-Herondale-Jackson (aka Clarisse)]

i wrote "so i was sitting in there at lunch, staring out the cafeteria window, when a shadow figure emerged from behind the bushes"

and it aid i write like H.G Wells
... dunno who that is but i will google it

[Sasha Ivashkov-Herondale-Jackson (aka Clarisse)]

Sasha wrote: "i wrote "so i was sitting in there at lunch, staring out the cafeteria window, when a shadow figure emerged from behind the bushes"

and it aid i write like H.G Wells
... dunno who that is but i wi..."

apparently he was an english writer best known for his work in the sci-fi genre

[Sasha Ivashkov-Herondale-Jackson (aka Clarisse)]

I got neil gaimen as well

[talltyrion]

Wow, that's creepy... Creepy accurate...

[Melissa]

Hey I got Stephen King too!

[talltyrion]

Huh. Now I got Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, interesting...

[Clarté]

Kaylee wrote: "@Melissa
*high five*


I've taken it a few times, and now I either get Stephen King or Cory Doctorow"

I got Cory Doctorow too! Him, and James Joyce with another script.

[talltyrion]

I got James Joyce once as well.

[Leyah]

I got a 'H. P. Lovecraft' for a poem I wrote. Yes, H. P. Lovecraft

[johanna (jo)]

Sasha Herondale wrote: "Sasha wrote: "i wrote "so i was sitting in there at lunch, staring out the cafeteria window, when a shadow figure emerged from behind the bushes"

and it aid i write like H.G Wells
... dunno who th..."

He wrote War of the Worlds, which is now a classic, is it not?

[johanna (jo)]

Oh wow - I'm mindblown. Just tried another piece of writing - much more recent than my last, which was an old story that I'm not very happy with P:

And I got exactly the same result.

Rudyard Kipling.

That is awesome. Maybe this is more accurate than I first thought! :D

[Lady Poppy]

Guys. I got J.K. Rowling. :D

Made my day.

[Lady Poppy]

You could always search for them on goodreads.

You've got some good authors there! :D

[Ʈʜэ MɐÐɲΣ§Ꭶ ᏊརƭᏲƗϞ]

I discovered this site over a year ago, it is incredibly fun for evaluating my own writing and is quite amusing with the results. Glad all of you got to experience it.

[L]

My fairytale story that i am currently working on, came out as "Anne Rice" ??

who she is ~ http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Rice/e/B00...

Interesting! I had never herd of her before

[Ʈʜэ MɐÐɲΣ§Ꭶ ᏊརƭᏲƗϞ]

I was given the same results for one of my pieces that I entered. I quite like her from what I have learned of her. I have yet to read any of her writing.

[[deleted user]]

Elevetha, you lucky duck.


I got Stephen King. Not bad - he's a lovely writer, but swears too much for my comfort.

[talltyrion]

Just submitted a clipping of a piece I've been working on and feel very hopeful about, and I got Dan Brown. How awesome is he?

[Vrushali]

i put an excerpt from the Hunger Games
and it said i write like chuck palanihuick....

hmmm...what does that say...??