I Write Like

[Nancy]

http://iwl.me/

[Ralph Gallagher]

Texan Summer apparently is like H.P. Lovecraft.

And please shoot me because one of my short stories that's out at a publisher is apparently like Stephenie Meyer.

[Nancy]

An excerpt of my review of the excellent Martyrs & Monsters is like David Foster Wallace.

My review of Red Spikes is like Edgar Allan Poe.

Too funny, Ralph. :)

[Fiona]

Nancy wrote: "An excerpt of my review of the excellent Martyrs & Monsters is like David Foster Wallace.

My review of Red Spikes is like Edgar Allan Poe.

Too funny, Ralph. :)"

Nancy, I posted a paragraph of my writings on autumn and apparently I write like David Foster Wallace too! Tee-hee! ;)

[Hiddenheart]

I posted a few paragraphs of my own, and apparently I write like Dan Brown.
I've never actually read The DaVinci Code or any of his work. Hmmmmm.....Maybe this is a sign that I should. =)
Very cool site, Nancy. Bookmarked it as a favorite. Thanks lots!

[Bill, Moderator]

Fiona wrote: "...Nancy, I posted a paragraph of my writings on autumn and apparently I write like David Foster Wallace too! Tee-hee! ..."

Me too. He's apparently an "Hysterical realist" a genre I've never heard of, but "is a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena."

The "elaborately absurd prose" is certainly spot-on! LOL! Though calling my natterings prose is a bit [insert your favorite adjective].

[Bill, Moderator]

I'm not sure about writing style, but I would certainly like to think like Cory Doctorow. His Little Brother is a modern masterpiece that should be read by all.

[Fiona]

Parishreader wrote: "I think I write like no other than myself."

Great response! ;)

[Katharina]

I got James Joyce. Great, I love Ireland.

[Snott]

I put an excerpt from one short story up and got Cory Doctorow followed by a different short story excerpt for which I got Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind). I have never read it but I have seen the movie. Now all I can do is wander around my house yelling "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!".

My partner is pregnant. She is not amused.

[Nancy]

Snott wrote: "Now all I can do is wander around my house yelling "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!".

My partner is pregnant. She is not amused..."


*snorts* :)

[Clodia]

I tried two separate chunks of the story I am currently working on; the first one is like James Joyce, apparantly, while the second is written in the manner of H.P. Lovecraft. I am a little sceptical.

[Stephen]

After trying three different chunks of my writing and getting three very different results, I just for haha's cut and pasted a section of moby dick into the analyzer. Turns out to sound like Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Wonder if Melville would agree.... Call me Suprised.

[Dylan]

I put in the first page or so of the book I am writing right now and it came out with Cory Doctorow. I echo Kernos here when I say that everyone should read Little Brother. Love the book.

[Nancy]

Very cool! Can you tell us a little about the book you're writing? I read Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and will check out Little Brother.

[Pogue]

I put in a blog post and got William Gibson. I have never heard of him before. So, I did another one this time a review of Mink Riverand I got James Joyce. It makes me think I need to go around talking about moocows.

[Pogue]

Martin wrote: "An extract from my novel is in the style of 'Arthur Clarke' apparently. Not Arthur C. Clarke, mind. For all I know, Arthur Clarke could be a fishmonger from Scotland."

I had to look on goodreads to find out who William Gibson was. I am going to look up Arthur Clarke to see who that is too. I am now curious.

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I'm like Ian Fleming. That can't be correct!

[Bill, Moderator]

Martin wrote: "Graham wrote: "I'm like Ian Fleming. That can't be correct!"

Well, you look like you could be the next James Bond... LOL"

Indeed! {sigh} But, then he'd have to go to bed with the likes Pussy Galore ;-)

[Tammy K.]

Matt wrote: "OH. MY. HOLY. GOD!

I just pasted my blog entry for June 30, 2011 and it said I write like ----- get this! ----- Vladimir Nabokov! Something's mighty wrong there, I think! The only thing I've read ..."

I got Vladimir Nabokov as well, never heard of him-her.
I had posted a short story that I never finished.

[Yzabel]

I pasted in a couple of excerpts from an UF story I'm woring on, and I got Jane Austen and Neil Gaiman. That duality is... interesting.

[Steelwhisper]

Hmm. I pasted chapters of my current WIP in and keep getting three authors quite consistently: Oscar Wilde, Anne Rice and James Joyce.

I can live with that ;)

[Jacque]

Wow interesting. Every piece of writing I pasted came back with James Joyce. All I used were several poems I wrote. Very cool.

[Adriano]

Jacque wrote: "Wow interesting. Every piece of writing I pasted came back with James Joyce. All I used were several poems I wrote. Very cool."

A piece of trivia... James Joyce is the most mentioned author in Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. It takes a real geek to go and count them... Do I get the badge of supergeek now?

[Chris]

Truman Capote!!!

*squees in a most unbecoming fashion*

[Averin]

Nonfiction: Dan Brown, fiction: Stephen King.

Big Scooby Doo huh?

[Virginia]

Stephenie Meyer?! No!

I think it's just because my character is named Bella

[Jacque]

I think you can have two badges for that. Lol!

[Nancy]

LOL!

[Rick]

Well, paint me surprised...

Supposedly I write like Jonathan Swift.

O.o

[Greg]

Rick wrote: "Well, paint me surprised...

Supposedly I write like Jonathan Swift.

O.o"

Impressive Rick!

[Greg]

I got Arthur C. Clarke.

[A.]

I write like James Fenimore Cooper.

Interesting, as my family lives very close to Cooperstown NY (I wasn't brought up there though).

Sad, as Last of the Mohicans was quite possibly the worst read on the planet. I mean, aside from Stephanie Meyers. So, there's that. ;)

[Greg]

A. wrote: "I write like James Fenimore Cooper.

Interesting, as my family lives very close to Cooperstown NY (I wasn't brought up there though).

Sad, as Last of the Mohicans was quite possibly the worst rea..."

LOL Arin!

I wonder what algorithms they use to figure this stuff out? Probably something straightforward like syllables per word and words per sentence, maybe number of clauses? I wish they said what it was in the writing that made them think so.

I'd have been very upset if I got Stephanie Meyer though :)

[Rick]

Greg wrote: "I got Arthur C. Clarke."

That's cool! :-)

[Rick]

Greg wrote: "I'd have been very upset if I got Stephanie Meyer though."

Yeah, I would have been as well.

[A.]

I'm totally captivated by this now. I'm supposed to be writing, dang it. The algorithm is mystifying; I wish I had the brainpower to figure it out but I absolutely cannot math today... not that I'd be able to take a swing at it any other day either, really.

After throwing at least ten thousand words and five chapters at this puppy, I'm apparently 95% James Fenimore Cooperish with a light smattering of Chuck Palahniuk and a slight chance of Cory Doctorow and Raymond Chandler coming out of the N-N-E at 5 knots (or something).

Fascinating.

[Rick]

A. wrote: "... After throwing at least ten thousand words and five chapters at this puppy, I'm apparently 95% James Fenimore Cooperish with a light smattering of Chuck Palahniuk and a slight chance of Cory Doctorow and Raymond Chandler coming out of the N-N-E at 5 knots (or something)...."

Hahaha. That's not fascination, that's obsession. ;-)

Cooper/Palahniuk/Doctorow/Chandler = you're in good company.

[A.]

Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe.... ;)

[Rick]

Toe-may-toe, tah-mah-toe.... Let's call the whole thing off. ;)

[A.]

Which is now totally off-topic (I'm sorry!) but now I'm going to have this stuck in my head ALL day.

Look, I'm sorry, I just don't see what's wrong with this relationship!

[Rick]

ROTFLMAO

:-D

[Greg]

A. wrote: "Which is now totally off-topic (I'm sorry!) but now I'm going to have this stuck in my head ALL day.

Look, I'm sorry, I just don't see what's wrong with this relationship!"

LOL Arin!

[Valyssia]

The last short I wrote netted me David Foster Wallace. Not my first trip down IWL lane. I've seen a number of results from snips of my stuff. Salinger, Lovecraft and Gaiman are the most common.

[A.]

Oh those are some fun ones! :D

[Greg]

Valyssia wrote: "The last short I wrote netted me David Foster Wallace. Not my first trip down IWL lane. I've seen a number of results from snips of my stuff. Salinger, Lovecraft and Gaiman are the most common."

Some good results indeed!

[Nancy]

My most recent review is like Ernest Hemingway.

[Rick]

I just put another piece through. This one came back as like David Foster Wallace.