Who do you write like?

[Deidre]

http://iwl.me/

Saw this on another forum, and thought it was fun. If you go to this website, and copy and paste a blog or something where you have a sample of your writing style, the website will let you know...who your writing style resembles. I copied and pasted a blog I posted elsewhere, and it came back 'Dan Brown.' I don't care for this result. lol

 

[Nietzsche]

Kurt Vonnegut, **************.

 

[Sunstone]

I submitted Four different blog posts and got:

David Foster Wallace.

Stephen King

H. P. Lovecraft

Jonathan Swift

Then, just for kicks, I resubmitted the David Foster Wallace piece and got Stephen King the second time around.

 

[Father Heathen]

Edgar Allan Poe, apparently? *shrugs*

 

[Revoltingest]

Some stylistic influences....
Theodor Geisel (aka Dr Suess)
Kurt Vonnegut
John Kennedy Toole
William Topaz Mcgonagall
Douglas Adams
Jonathan Collier
David Mamet

Submitting 4 different samples, the link in the OP says I write like....
Kurt Vonnegut
Cory Doctorow
Dan Brown (twice)
Of these 3, I've only read KV.

 

[Buttercup]

What an interesting thread!

I submitted longer posts from private messages and I got: David Foster
Then, I added posts from the open forums and the result was: James Joyce.

 

[Buttercup]

I submitted Four different blog posts and got:

David Foster Wallace.

Stephen King

H. P. Lovecraft

Jonathan Swift

Then, just for kicks, I resubmitted the David Foster Wallace piece and got Stephen King the second time around.

That's quite a diverse set of authors. How intriguing.

 

[Deidre]

I submitted Four different blog posts and got:

David Foster Wallace.

Stephen King

H. P. Lovecraft

Jonathan Swift

Then, just for kicks, I resubmitted the David Foster Wallace piece and got Stephen King the second time around.

You do remind of Stephen King. Your writing, I mean. lol

 

[Deidre]

Edgar Allan Poe, apparently? *shrugs*

You and @Nietzsche are lucky!! Both excellent!

 

[BSM1]

It seems Dan Brown's style casts a wide net.

 

[Deathbydefault]

David Foster Wallace, that's about right I guess.

 

[Revoltingest]

It seems Dan Brown's style casts a wide net.

He must be a great writer.

 

[Deidre]

It seems Dan Brown's style casts a wide net.

Yes, and I don't like it!

 

[Digital_Monk]

Interesting. I'm unfamiliar with the author I got as a result, so I'm curious how the program analyzes the text.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

I tried 5 long texts written over the last 20 years, 3 published and 2 not, and got
Shakespeare
Lovecraft
Wodehouse
Poe (twice)

How can an article on Bronze Age chronology read like Lovecraft? At least I got Shakespeare and not Dan Brown!

 

[Deidre]

I'm going to throw in some posts that show more of a debating style, and see what the outcome is lol...when I blog, I'm more casual in my writing, and I want to say that's Dan Brown-esque...I've never read his work, but not interested in reading it either.

To resemble Poe would be divine.

 

[Deidre]

Okay, so I copied and pasted a few posts from the Determinism thread that I started recently, and Kurt Vonnegut came up as the result.

I'm a split personality writer?

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

I got Mario Puzo for one post I did.

If you're terrible at writing will it say, "You write like... the Hulk"

wut if sum1 typin lyk dis tries it, they're forced to give them some famous historic writer? Great stuff.

 

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

5 times I tryed sample each return
Dan Brown lol

 

[Digital_Monk]

I've done this a few times, and it's good for a laugh. I've never gotten Dan Brown for any of my attempts. Good. That guy cannot write.