I Write Like...

[P.A.]

Sara wrote: "Ignite wrote: "Well, it's completely random I suggest. I put in my review for Rachel Abbott's The Back Road. JK Rowling writes like me! (I refuse to look at the other way round!)

I put in my Re..."

I have a hardcover edition of Infinite Jest ... the Kindle version is way less intimidating, as you don't need a separate bag to carry it in.

[Tim]

Paul (rhymes with "tall" ... why is that so hard f wrote: "Screw you, bad review! What do you know? I write like Chuck Palahniuk!"

You should say that on your back cover... ;)

[Geoff]

Very surprise when I am supposed to be like James Joyce - must have a bug in the system!

[Sara]

Tim wrote: "Paul (rhymes with "tall" ... why is that so hard f wrote: "Screw you, bad review! What do you know? I write like Chuck Palahniuk!"

You should say that on your back cover... ;)"

Hahaha, yes, readers will love that!

[Kate]

I put in Chapter 1 of my published crime novel, Recognition, and it said Stephen King. Chapter 2 of the same book and it said Cory Doctorow (who I've never even read!).

Did the same with my work in progress, it said PG Wodehouse for Chapter 1 and Margaret Atwood for Chapter 2! Since it's meant to be humorous I'll quit while I'm ahead and take the Wodehouse.

Thanks for pointing this out, Tim - I can see hours of entertainment (aka not getting on with writing) ahead!

[David]

Apparently for "Alloria" I write like James Joyce.

And for "Fuel to the Fire" I write like David Foster Wallace.

Atwood is well worth reading, I've not disliked a book of hers yet :~)

[Robert]

I tried a few things, the first one was David Foster Wallace (who I've never heard of before so I'll have to check his stories out). The next was H.P. Lovecraft and the third was Douglas Adams.

[Andrew]

I just put a couple of chapters of Black by Rose in, and it said I write like Dan Brown.

Who's he?

So then I put the new short story, Shelley Mandrake in, and that's in the style of Neil Gaiman.

Ah that's better :)

[Kath]

You do so not write like Mr Who's He!

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Patti writes like Stephen Leather.... would you believe it?

[Jim]

It told me that I write with green crayon on brown wrapping paper and if I didn't get back into bed, it'd tell the ward sister :-(

[David]

Nice one, Jim :D

[Jim]

Well I felt I had to say something to burnish my credentials.
You're nothing if your credentials aren't well burnished, let me tell you

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

What do you use? Brass polish?

[Patti (baconater)]

Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "Patti writes like Stephen Leather.... would you believe it?"

Even I don't write to that level of utter bollacks.

[Jim]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "What do you use? Brass polish?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGNOtG...

[Tim]

Woolies? That dates it!!!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

That brings me back a long way!

[Jason]

Apparently I write like Stephen King! Which is amazing, because he is my favourite author of all time. This has made my day.

[Andrew]

Apparently I write like HP Lovecraft. Are you sure this isn't just throwing up random author names?

[Tim]

Do you write lie HP Lovecraft? Maybe it's right... ;)

BTW, I come from Chatham too!!!

[Tim]

*like*

Bloody iPad!

[Andrew]

I don't think I write like Lovecraft, no. The odd thing is I tried it on bits from several of my books and it went for Lovecraft in all cases... very odd.

Where in Chatham are you, or have you escaped too?

[Tim]

I've escaped. We moved across the river to Strood, although our original "patch" was the Chatham Maidstone Road / Pattens Lane area. Now I live just south of Oxford.

[David]

It reckons I write like Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, James Joyce and Rudyard Kipling.

Which is interesting. I've read most of Joyce, some Gaiman, no Palahnuik and I've eaten some of Mr Kipling's cakes.

[Andy]

I ran two chapters from The Remarkables through it and ended up being compared to HP Lovecraft and Robert Louis Stevenson. I then submitted a further two from the follow up I'm writing and was once again compared to Mr Stevenson, but also Margaret Mitchell.

Frankly, I don't give a damn.

[Tim]

I let it read my whole novel, now I'm waiting for it to post the review on Amazon... "The Arthur C. Clarke of 42 Cakehole Lane!"

[Jud]

David wrote: "It reckons I write like Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, James Joyce and Rudyard Kipling.

Which is interesting. I've read most of Joyce, some Gaiman, no Palahnuik and I've eaten some of Mr Kipling's ..."

Just some cakes?

[David]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: Just some cakes?

Well....

[Andrew]

Tim wrote: "I've escaped. We moved across the river to Strood, although our original "patch" was the Chatham Maidstone Road / Pattens Lane area. Now I live just south of Oxford."

Round the corner from my old school (I went to Chatham Grammar). I escaped too - I live in Edwinstowe (Sherwood Forest) these days.

[J.D.]

It says I write like J.R.R. Tolkien. If only that were true! I'm pretty sure that it is using content as one of its criteria, so anything that involves blades and dragons is probably going to come up as Tolkien. If I'd mentioned "old gods", I'd probably have gotten Lovecraft.