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Which Famous Author do you Write like?!
I got L. Frank Baum and J.K. Rowling. :)Have you checked out http://www.booksai.com/ ? It's similar, except it'll allow you to paste in the entire text of your book and compares the writing style (across genres) to the 10,000 books in its memory. Which isn't a lot, but it's not a bad start. I think it's still in beta mode, but it's fun to see who your writing style sort of compares to.
Over there I get Raymond E. Feist, James Barclay, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson, and Terry Brooks.
I have been told in the real world, King, Barker, and occasionally Poe & Gaiman. THIS site said (on three separate samples)Ian Fleming / H. P. Lovecraft / Chuck Palahniuk
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Yeah... I have no idea how accurate these things are LOL... but it's a fun way to procrastinate from actual writing! hahaha
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Lol, I got James Fenimore Cooper. Quite flattering. Fun little test, thanks for sharing! :)
Thanks E.B,Glad to see you had fun!
David wrote: "I have been told in the real world, King, Barker, and occasionally Poe & Gaiman. THIS site said (on three separate samples)Ian Fleming / H. P. Lovecraft / Chuck Palahniuk
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Mine said Ian and Chuck. I gave it three different examples from the same work.
I tried four different things, I got David Foster Wallace twice, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Shakespeare.
Seriously, though, my first books reads like a V.C. Andrews. I was kind of disappointed when several people told me that my first book reminded them of a V.C. Andrews book. Several people told me that some of my other books remind them of Nora Roberts. That disappointed me also. Those aren't my favorite authors but I'm greatful for the compliments.
I got Kurt Vonnegut, Cory Doctorow and Anne Rice for three different passages.According to this one, http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/20..., I'm a new Hemingway.
I got Kurt Vonnegut for one sample, and Cory Doctorow for two others. Interesting, since I read one Kurt Vonnegut years ago, and none of anything by Cory Doctorow...
I didn't follow instrucitons. I didn't notice you could put a sample of your writing and have it analyzed. I just did that and I got the shock of my life. I write like Stephen King? Really? He would be the last writer I would have thought I wrote like.
I just did again with my first novel and got Kurt Vonnegut? That's one author I haven't read. Have to check him out.
Peggy wrote: "I just did again with my first novel and got Kurt Vonnegut? That's one author I haven't read. Have to check him out."Same with me!
I like this. I got Arthur C Clarke. I'm rather pleased with that.
Jacqueline Carey, but a little less florid.
Okay, I think I'm done. I put excerpts from each of my books and this was the surprising results: Three for Stephen King, two for Ursula K. LeGuin, one for Kurt Vonnegut, One for Cary Doctorow, and one for S.D. Salinger.Nothing like the feedback I get from readers, i.e. V.C. Andrews and Nora Roberts. It's very confusing!
What a hoot! I got Mario Puzo and L. Frank Baum, and my favorite Vladimir Nabokov - who I had to look up.
I used an excerpt from the opening chapter of the book I am currently writing and got David Foster Wallace. When I added an excerpt from my previous book, I got Vladimir Nabokov.
I used a clip from my soon to be released novel Worlds Apart and got Stephen King. Now if I could only get his forward payment. :-)
I used a chapter from my slowly growing fantasy book and gotUrsula K Le Guin
Happy with that !!!
Apparently I'm very poetic, because I got Rudyard Kipling a bunch of times, followed by Edgar Allan Poe, and Stephenie Meyer (not sure how I feel about the last one).
I wish I could write like whoever penned The Bible.I'd be the most popular writer of modern times if I could.
I don't really know who I would consider my writing style after and If I did I don't know that I'd be so bold to say so because people may be like whoa your no such and such a person!I mean I get the premise of the topic, If you had to compare your writing and aside from myself its really hard to say. I sometimes take notations and styles of classic writers to create my own spin but one specific author? Nah!
THIS MADE ME SOO HAPPY OMG
First book I wrote it like Douglas Adams. (I've never read his work.)
I tested my sequel and it says Anna Rice.
25 chapters later now I write like Margaret Mitchel.
Can someone change style that much? Fun little program but it seems a little random.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single author in possession of a good talent must be in want of a wit.However little known the writings of an author, it is surely best to be compared, without pride or prejudice, to oneself, and to find comparisons to others, however great or admired, to be not a compliment, at all, but a demeaning of one's sense and sensibility. For, after all, are we not meant to be original, ourselves, at least? To be compared to one's favourite authors is only to reveal we have followed the path of their pens too carefully.
I have been told by others that my style resembles that of an English authoress, named Miss Jane Austen, who, I am told, has not published a novel for some time. I can only say that no persuasion would convince that I do. I have my own style, and there is an end of it.
I tested my Sci Fi novel and got I write like Arthur C Clarke. I tested my Vampire novel and got William Gibson.
It is a cute website.
I don't think I write like anybody but me but more than a couple of my readers liken me to a poor man's Larry McMurtry.The analyzer said Margret Mitchell.
I tested 3 paragraphs from a middle chapter of my second book and I got Arthur C. Clarke. Tested a larger selection that included dialogue from the same chapter and I got Anne Rice. Tested the entire chapter and got Arthur C. Clarke again haha. Clarke makes a lot of sense as I do write SF and I've always considered my books to be more Golden Age style.
Never read Anne Rice, but she's a big deal so I'll take that as a compliment I suppose.
This is a cool little test, but I don't buy it! It is fun I must admit. I guess I write like J.K. Rowling. I never read the Harry Potter books, and I read mostly in Medieval Fantasy. It must be the Wizards...ha, ha.
Julie wrote: "I'm mildly depressed as I got Dan Brown as my writing doppelganger."Oh no!!
But I don't think that's accurate. Your writing doesn't remind me of Dan Brown.
I got H.P. Lovecraft for my novel.I would guess that's not true, but haven't read his work....
I realise it is only a bit of fun, but for my blog I came out like Arthur Clarke – for part of my historical novel writing from female POV - Vladimir NabokovI –
from a male POV - David Foster Wallace
and for description of the sea and a sailing ship in danger - Robert Louis Stevenson.
and for the above four line effort – James Joyce !
Does this make me a quadro-writer?? :-o) (what ever that is)
Julie wrote: "Dina wrote: "I got H.P. Lovecraft for my novel.I would guess that's not true, but haven't read his work...."
You and I got really really bad answers lol!!! I have read Lovecraft and no no no!! A..."
I think it's just random. I put the first 9 chapters in separately and got a new author almost every time.
It would be interesting to take a sample of one of those authors and see if the program matches it.
Well, I'm trying it (seeing if famous authors get themselves)JK Rowling came out as JK Rowling.
Stephen King came out as HP Lovecraft.
Anne Rice came out as Mary Shelley...and Dan Brown.
HP Lovecraft came out as Arthur Clarke.
Dan Brown came out as Dan Brown.
Lewis Carol??? It's gotta be messin' with my head.If anything, I'm heavily influenced by Robert Heinlein, but my writing these days is influenced by a number of years as a copy editor for a publisher and my own crusade to stamp out unnecessary dialog tags.
Ain't no Tiny Tim coming out of my head. Most of my main characters are highly competent (like Heinlein's) and any handicaps are usually the result of heroic action in the past.
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Other samples gave me: Cory Doctorow (never heard of him) and Arthur Clark.
Dina wrote: "Well, I'm trying it (seeing if famous authors get themselves)JK Rowling came out as JK Rowling.
Stephen King came out as HP Lovecraft.
Anne Rice came out as Mary Shelley...and Dan Brown.
HP Lo..."
Since Stephen King's inspiration was H.P. Lovecraft. I can see that. But H.P. Lovecraft as Arthur C Clarke? But since it takes in to consideration style and structure not content. I can see that too.
Al wrote: "Lewis Carol??? It's gotta be messin' with my head.If anything, I'm heavily influenced by Robert Heinlein, but my writing these days is influenced by a number of years as a copy editor for a publi..."
Remember this uses structure and style not content.
My favourite chapter in my fic got JK Rowling and I'm thrilled. As for my other writing, I got.... The novel I've been working on for ten years got Gertrude Stein (I need to read her stuff, weird that I'm writing like an author I've never read), and one of my other novels got David Foster Wallace. Never heard of him....
I think I write like Erin Hunter or J.K.Rowling.
I model my writing after John LeCarre.
With three different pieces of writing I got J K Rowling, J R R Tolkien and Lewis Carroll.I can live with that...
If I had to claim one writer I would have to say Tracy Hickman. But I have been told I have a spice of Raymond Feist and Margeret Weiss as well. Mostly, I am trying to develop my own style.
I'd like to believe I write like Stephanie Perkins.
Charles Dickens!!! (Especially 'Great Expectations', my favorite story of his)
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With four different pieces of my writing they showed four different authors. Anne Rice, James F. Cooper, Stephen King and Kurt Vonnegut.
What i found interesting in mine is that except for one, all the authors are male. And even Anne Rice writes a bit male oriented stories!
Hmm.. What do i make of that?
Well, if nothing else its amusing. Check out how you do.