I’ve seen this site I Write Like several places around the blogosphere and thought I’d give it a try. Click on the link, copy and paste a section of your writing into the special box and some techno-magic analyzes your words and tells you who you write like. I copied and pasted three different samples of stuff I’ve written and came up with the following responses: I write like James Joyce in one of them, like Chuck Palahniuk in another one, and Margaret Atwood in the last one. I think that’s pretty interesting company.
Go ahead and give it a try. Who do you write like?
I did it yesterday and I write like James Fenimore Cooper and David Foster Wallace...neither of whom I've read...so I need to get cracking and figure this out.
ReplyDeleteIt always gives me James Joyce.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit suspicious of its algorithm. And of its stock supply of published authors to compare us to. Its 'repertoire' seems rather limited.
Don't get me wrong, Joyce is one of my all-time favorite writers. I'm certainly not insulted. ( I wish!) But I'll chock that site up to entertainment. :)
Me too! How wild is that, Sarahjayne?? Well, I only got Atwood once, Joyce four times, Palahnuik three times and also Stephen King once. (Can you say addicting?? Ha.)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with Lola in wanting to know how this algorithm works, and which authors were available for comparison. I mean, could one of us create a good genre-specific one? That would rock!
I loved this thing! I did it the other day and it was amazing I had three different people tipe up and I was very excited about it! I'd never heard of the authors but researching what they wrote fit what I wrote to a T, it must know what it's doing!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Sarahjayne!
LOL--well, even I told you I thought you sounded like Margaret Atwood ;)
ReplyDeleteA writing professor/class once told me I wrote like John Irving, but that phase has probably passed.
I'll have to give this a try and see what comes up. Thanks for the link.
At the first try, I write like Kurt Vonnegut and the second, it is James Fenimore Cooper. Well, I better find out more about them. Thanks for this fun 'detective' search!
ReplyDeleteI posted about this today, too. In my epic fantasy, it gave me James Joyce in 15 out of 30 chapters. In my paranormal romance, it gave me both James Joyce and William Gibson. I've never read either of them. I suppose I should give them a try...
ReplyDeleteIt seems no matter what piece of my writing I use it always comes up Dan Brown. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
ReplyDeleteMine was Jack London...
ReplyDeleteif only it were so!
LOL, this meme reminds me of that website that was all the rage a few years back where you could upload your photo and see what celebrities you supposedly look like. It's fun when all possible results are highly flattering.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a fun site to play around on? I plugged in all sorts of posts and poems and got a variety of responses. Going to do a post about it this weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think that I write like Erma Bombeck. That's all I need to know.
ReplyDeleteThat seems like a wide variety of writers. James Joyce and Margaret Atwood are miles apart. I wonder how it determines who you are writing like.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I believe this thing, but I did try it and the piece came up as Mark Twain. At least it was accurate in time period--the one I submitted would have been comptemporary with Tom and Huck! :o)
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool site! I'm going over now...
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