I Write Like...

[MH]

Has anyone seen this cool website? It analyzes your sentence structure to tell you a famous author you write most like. (Definitely not content-wise... I'm pretty sure I don't write like Chuck Palahniuk content-wise.)

http://iwl.me/

Who do you write like?

[Kelly (and the Book Boar)]

David Foster Wallace - the author of my "white whale". I have a sneaking suspicion he doesn't use nearly the amount of profanity, pointless ellipses, or excessive punctuation marks as I do ; )

(or emoticons)

[Liana]

I put in two different works, and got two different answers that I'm very pleased with. My historical writing (non-fiction) gave me biographer Gertrude Stein; my blog posts (shameless plug: past2presentresearch.wordpress.com) compared to Mark Twain. :)

[taylor]

Cory Doctorow- apparently he's a Canadian-British blogger and journalist. This makes sense because I definitely write like I talk!

[Cookie]

My results were VERY interesting:

HP Lovecraft & Kurt Vonnegut more often than not (I put in several different blog posts)

This was fun, and such a baseless boost to the ego. Love it.

[Laura]

Hmmm...I don't have much of my writing samples on hand but from a couple small memorized poems and an MCPL blog I wrote I was given Lewis Carroll and Margaret Atwood several times.

Interesting topic and website!

[Amy]

Not that I write a lot but I got David Foster Wallace.