Who do you write like?

[Mouthwash]

Just paste a few paragraphs of your very own writing here to see which famous writer you're closest to. Do it multiple times with varying samples.

I got Agatha Christie. And Raymond Chandler. Obviously I don't have a clear writing style yet.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I put in the two most recent things I'd written. For the first, I was Isaac Asimov. For the second H.P.Lovecraft.

I cut and pasted some of the prose of John Milton and it said he wrote like William Shakespeare.

I suspect its database is limited (i.e. doesn't contain any Milton) and that its grounds for saying what is "like" is pretty limited.

Fun, though.

Edit: I did this post and Lovecraft came up again.

 

[caketastydelish]

I got Kurt Vonnegut, which is stupid because everybody knows I write like Douglas Adams (or try to).

 

[Smellincoffee]

My book reviews keep getting H.P. Lovecraft, my nonfiction essays Kurt Vonnegut and H.P. Lovecraft.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I write like... David Foster Wallace? Who's that?

Anyway, I was expecting more Terry Pratchett, but maybe he didn't affect me as much as I previously thought (then again, I did post an overreacing diary entry...)

 

[Core Imposter]

Dan Brown. I used a post from the midterms thread here and its says I writes like Dan Brown.

Who is Dan Brown?

Off to Google Dan Brown. Hope its not a bloody liberal.

 

[gay_Aleks]

It's something worse; he's a scratchy conspiracy theorist who thinks the Illuminati have buried da Vinci's body on an asteroid on the course for the Netherlands or something.

 

[dragonprobably]

Tried Multiple Things, I got:

*Isaac Asimov
*Arthur Clarke
*Chuck Palahniak
*Cory Doctorow (Got him 2 times)
*Margaret Atwood

 

[MilesGregarius]

For a post here discussing village naming conventions in Laos, I got Ursula K. Le Guin.

For a short expository passage in a play-by-post fantasy RPG, I got Chuck Palahniuk.

The dialogue portions of same got James Joyce all three times.

 

[Synobun]

Apparently Oscar Wilde. Cool, I guess?

 

[caketastydelish]

The idea is good, the micromanaging put into this project wasn't. If a large corporation with vast manpower and resources like Microsoft/Google/Apple/whatever spent a lot of time and money on this and made it into an app, I'd pay some money to get it.

 

[caketastydelish]

It's something worse; he's a scratchy conspiracy theorist who thinks the Illuminati have buried da Vinci's body on an asteroid on the course for the Netherlands or something.

I thought Dan Brown admitted his books are only works of fiction and not to be taken seriously?

 

[Kennigit]

My paragraph on piping insulation got David Foster Wallace

 

[ParkCungHee]

H.P. Lovecraft. Goddamnit.

 

[JollyRoger]

Put in my longest infracted post from here and got Kurt Vonnegut

So it goes

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Tried Multiple Things, I got:

*Isaac Asimov
*Arthur Clarke
*Chuck Palahniak
*Cory Doctorow (Got him 2 times)
*Margaret Atwood

I have no idea who Chuck Palahniak and Cory Doctorow are, but I'd feel pleased and honored to have the others come up.

Alas, I will never know, since all I got was a blank white page.

 

[AdamCrock]

I've got Stephen King ...

 

[cybrxkhan]

I pasted something from about two years ago, though arguably one of the best writing I've done since high school, and I got Cory Doctorow... no idea who the heck that was so I had to wiki him up.

I was hoping to get JD Salinger. He was a big influence on my fiction writing style... Maybe some of my other creative writing is like that.

 

[Core Imposter]

So I looked Dan Brown up.

At 200 million books sold, he is one of the highest selling authors of all time and with only six books, he has achieved these sales writing fewer books than anyone above him on the list

So I am writing out my resignation. Sorry boss, got a better gig lined up. All right, goodnight.

 

[Perfection]

Isaac Asimov

Even though Giant Death Robots don't really follow the three laws...