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These little stories for the group writing competitions are all the writing I've done, so that's me analysed totally.Chuck Palahniuk for my Mr Men story (Mr Procrastinator)
Chuck Palahniuk for my Zappa cockroach story
J. K. Rowling for Tea and Scones
Stephen King for Stop Laughing!
mmmm James Joyce apparently! That was chapter 1 of The Viking's Apprentice. Going to try it for another wee part of the book though..
interesting, when I do an action scene I get JK Rowling which is kind of what I was going for lol. First chapter is still James Joyce though!
Ha! I pasted in three chapters and came out as HG Wells, Arthur Clarke and JK Rowling! Either my style is totally erratic or this is a load of old cobblers.
I wonder what it'd say it I put a few of my posts in there.Is there an author known as Total Bollacks?
Not having heard of or read any Margaret Atwood (don'tcha just love dangling modifiers!), she's just rocketed up my TBR, and The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood will shortly fall victim to Mr One-Click...From the descriptions, she is exactly the vibe I was going for :)
Apparently I write like Mark Twain as well but the second chunk of the same text was like Chuck Palahniuk
Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "I wonder what it'd say it I put a few of my posts in there.Is there an author known as Total Bollacks?"
Try it
I put in a selection of my blog posts & apparently I write like
Dan Brown
HP Lovecraft
Cory Doctorow
James Fenimore Cooper
Jay-me (Janet) ~plum chutney is best~ wrote: "Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "I wonder what it'd say it I put a few of my posts in there.Is there an author known as Total Bollacks?"
Try it
I put in a selection of my blog posts & apparently I write..."
And *that post* was like Cory Doctorow... ;)
Tim wrote: "Not having heard of or read any Margaret Atwood (don'tcha just love dangling modifiers!), she's just rocketed up my TBR, and The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood will short..."Tim! How could NOT have read Margaret Atwood???
Be sure to read them in the order you've listed.
I just finished The Year of the flood a couple weeks ago.
Tim wrote: ".And *that post* was like Cory Doctorow... ;) "
It would help if I had read/heard of these people that I am supposed to write like
Jay-me (Janet) ~plum chutney is best~ wrote: "Tim wrote: ".And *that post* was like Cory Doctorow... ;) "
It would help if I had read/heard of these people that I am supposed to write like"
Writes for the Guardian, co-editor of http://boingboing.net Sci Fi novelist, Canadian (so Patti knows him, obviously)...
Patti (Fluffy) wrote: Tim! How could NOT have read Margaret Atwood???Be sure to read them in the order you've listed.
I just finished The Year of the flood a couple weeks ago. "
Something I intend to rectify at my earliest opportunity!
Tim wrote: "Not having heard of or read any Margaret Atwood (don'tcha just love dangling modifiers!), she's just rocketed up my TBR, and The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood will short..."I read Oryx and Crake and The Year of The Flood and loved them both. The Handmaid's I haven't read but they say it's really good as well.
What a fun idea!I put a chunk of Maureen goes to Venice in and I am like James Joyce...apparently...
You certainly aren't Jonathan. I can read your stuff!
It's joking. It says I write like James Joyce. Hahaha! Fun stuff.
Sara!!!READ HANDMAIDENS TALE!
Oops. I shouted. :)
There's a film of it too. Film is not bad but read the book first.
Didn't like the Handsmaid's Tale at all. Thought it was a load of feminist hooha (and yes I know she was having a go at feminists throughout the book as well as the more obvious targets). I enjoyed Oryx and Crake (although not enough to want to read The Year of the Flood yet!) and I also enjoyed The Blind Assassin. I find her very much a Female Voice.
Here's her book list.Seems she has a kindle single...must click that.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_n...+
How have you lot not noticed me wax poetic about her before?
I did it twice, once I was Neil Gaiman. The second one was Stephen King. Great fun!
Shall I try it with my reviews? That's the only writing I do - apart from emails. (And they're personal!)
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 Review for David Staniforth's Alloria - that was HP Lovecraft copying me.
Then the last was for Jim Webster's The Flames of the City - David Foster Wallace (whoever he is) has been copying me for style tips.
And of course, they were all written in my own (inimitable) style. What a load of cobblers!
EDIT - when I put all 3 reviews together and analyse the lot it becomes JK Rowling again. Total tripe!
I was looking at my profile here on Goodreads this morning and saw a button I've never noticed before - "Similar authors". I got very excited. I've always wondered who others think I write like. So I pressed it and was taken...straight back to my own profile. I write like ME!
Who'da thunked it?
Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "Sara!!!READ HANDMAIDENS TALE!
Oops. I shouted. :)
There's a film of it too. Film is not bad but read the book first."
I will. It's on my TBR pile! Will watch the film after!
Katie wrote: "I was looking at my profile here on Goodreads this morning and saw a button I've never noticed before - "Similar authors". I got very excited. I've always wondered who others think I write like. So..."Lol Katie!
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 Review for David ..."
I have a David Foster Wallace book waiting to be read. It's Infinite Jest. It's supposed to be good but it's really looooong and hard work so it always goes down my pile.
I just tried it with one of my reviews and I'm ashamed to admit who I got... Least I'd still sell millions of books though
Come on Jud, who is it?I just did it again on my wip and got Jane Austen.
I tried another review and got H.P. Lovecraft, never heard of them.
Sara wrote: "EL James?"I wondered if it was her ;)
Lovecraft is a master of shuddery horror. I'd love to review like him! Actually, I did (allegedly) with Alloria.I think they're random.
If you do the same one twice you get the same person though (I did) so there must be some type of calculation behind it
I'm worried now. I just put in a letter of complaint that I sent to my energy suppliers & apparently I write like.....................William Shakespeare.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "If you do the same one twice you get the same person though (I did) so there must be some type of calculation behind it"I didn't, the same piece was by Mark Twain and a few days later it was by Mario Puzo. Second time I might not have used all the piece, but there was a couple of thousand words
I resubmitted the same chapters today and got the same results.
I'm hoping eventually Maggs Atwood will be told she writes like me...At least I don't write like Maureen...
Douglas Adams writes like Mark twain
Mark Twain writes like James Joyce
I was rather hoping that James Joyce would write like Douglas Adams but disappointingly he writes like James Joyce
Jay-me (Janet) ~plum chutney is best~ wrote: "I'm worried now. I just put in a letter of complaint that I sent to my energy suppliers & apparently I write like.....................William Shakespeare."
Lol!
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Dan Brown."Oh, well...
After seeing a one star review come in on one of my books, this genius website has re-inflated my ego.Screw you, bad review! What do you know? I write like Chuck Palahniuk!
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The Blind Assassin (other topics)The Handmaid’s Tale (other topics)
Oryx and Crake (other topics)
The Year of the Flood (other topics)
Paste a lump of text into it, and it'll tell you what famous author it is most like.
I tried several chapters from Wanted and got 1 hit each for Arthur Clarke, Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allen Poe, and 3 hits for Margaret Atwood.
Chapter 1 of book 2 came out as being like Ray Bradbury.
(btw, I tried a section of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and it said mark Twain!
So who is your writing most like?
(if you want to know how it works: http://blog.iwl.me/post/829211834/how... )