Who do you write like?

[kgbsquirrel]

Interesting little website. You punch in a bit of your own writing and it compares it to other popular writers and tells you who it most closely matches. I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.


http://iwl.me/

[Angel Eyes]

I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.

Well, that's a little unsettling.


















 

[41magsnub]

I ended up with Kurt Vonnegut.  I read most all of his books in high school and into college so it could make sense.

[Tallpine]

I did this one or one like it once before...

It said I wrote like Ursula Leguin  

[kgbsquirrel]

Well, that's a little unsettling.

 

Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.

[BridgeRunner]

I tried several different pieces.  The three legal ones I tried resulted in Lovecraft.  The non-legal ones--my fb notes--came back as: Cory Doctorow, HP Lovecraft, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace.

I have not read anything written by any of these authors.

[vaskidmark]

 
I write like
David Foster Wallace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

I had to look him up.

I'm satisfied.

stay safe.

[Angel Eyes]

Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.

Could be worse.

Could have been Ursula.

[41magsnub]

I just pasted 2 paragraphs from Slaughterhouse 5 into it and it thinks Kurt writes like Arthur Clarke   

[AJ Dual]

Dan Brown.

*expletive deleted*ck. Where's my gun?

No, I can't, I have a wife... kids who need me.  

Dammit. Dan Brown?

Yeah. Let's get the gun...  

[PTK]

I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.

Knowing you for the length of time that I have, this information does not surprise me. At all.

[Angel Eyes]

Heh.

I entered "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and it came back with Raymond Chandler.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Stephen King for moi. Never read him... but if he writes like me:

It's dashed difficult to look debonair with two q-tips sticking out of your nose. Believe me, I've tried.

Then he's clearly worth looking into.

[kgbsquirrel]

Something I've found is it will change if you put in more of what you write, a few paragraphs from me gave the answer of Poe, a few pages worth, Lovecraft each time, even if it was different stuff I've done. Larger sampling would presumably be better in this case.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Okay, put a third para in there - and I'm Chuck Palahniuk.

The characters in Palahniuk's stories often break into philosophical asides (either by the narrator to the reader, or spoken to the narrator through dialogue), offering numerous odd theories and opinions, often misanthropic or darkly absurdist in nature

Okay. I do that. Trying more for a P.G. Wodehouse does pulp fiction, though.

[lee n. field]

Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

And, David Foster Wallace (whoever he was).

And Kurt Vonnegut, and James Joyce.

Depending on what snippets I drop in.

[lee n. field]

Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.

Could be worse.

Could have been Ursula.

Ursula Lovecraft?

[Tuco]

Isaac Asimov or Cory Doctorow.

Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?

And by the way, if I submit "Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?" I get back "Cory Doctorow"
If I submit "Who the hell is Ernest Hemingway" I get Ernest Hemingway.

if I submit "Who the hell is Earnest Hemmingway?" <sic> I get Bram Stoker.

[TommyGunn]

According to this sight Niccolo Machiavelli writes like James Fenimore Cooper.

[Scout26]

Plugged in some of my stuff from here and Facebook:

Tuesday's at Chemo - William Gibson (Who ?)

Stupid Lieutenant Tricks -  Harry Harrison (Who ?)

The Last Three Years - Margaret Atwood (Heard of her, but couldn't say what she wrote)

We're Doomed-id - Mario Puzo

Diversity Day - Kurt Vonnegut

I only recognize Puzo (never read anything by him, I'm not a Mafia book or movie fan) and Vonnegut.



After going back and wiki'ing the authors I didn't recognize, all except Puzo do science fiction, I wonder what that means......

[BReilley]

Hm.  Apparently one of my American-History class responses, from a 2003 college class, smacks of Lovecraft.

I see a pattern here.

[Hawkmoon]

I write like ... Mario Puzo?

Who ... or what ... is Mario Puzo?

[230RN]

Made-up as a test out of the deep nooks of my cortex:


"The tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp in the morning sun smudged the sound of the garbage trucks hoisting their trash high then depositing the offal in its innards."

Stephen King



"The tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp in the morning sun formed a couterpoint to the sweet chirping of the birds."

James Joyce



"The sweet chirping of the birds formed a counterpoint to the tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp."

James Joyce again.  I'll bet it was the tumptubbing.  I remember reading something like that in "Ulysses."



"The gun flew out of his hand when my big .45 bucked and the slug hit him in the guts, where it would hurt."

Stephen King again.  I was shooting trying for Mickey Spillane.



"Made-up as a test out of the deep nooks of my cortex."

Ursula K. Le Guin   Never read her.  Hmmm... "Made-up" = "makeup?"



Feh.

Terry, 230RN

Footnotelike:

Grins galore

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

The "It was a dark and stormy night" worst novel beginnings contest.  Looking over some of my junk, I get embarrassed.

[Iain]

Heh.

I entered "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and it came back with Raymond Chandler.

I got Chandler with a couple of my own paragraphs. Generally admire spare prose, but I doubt Chandler would have seen the similarity.

[RoadKingLarry]

I think the thing is FOS

I gave it a big sample of Louis L'Amour and it came back with Margaret Mitchell.