Foo - Which famous author do you write like?

Apparently, I write like a combination between Oscar Wilde, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood, according to this website (http://iwl.me/).

(Methodology: the little scientist in me was not contented with using just one data point. I used 15 random blog posts of mine that were two paragraphs or more as samples, then I took the top three results.)

So who do YOU write like?

Hmm. Apparently I write like James Joyce. Uhm, yeah. OK.

That analyzer sucks. I cut and pasted the first paragraphs of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into it and was told I write like James Joyce. I do not see how that is possible, unless Joyce used ctrl C and ctrl V to plagiarize Hemingway,

Apparently I write like Stephen King. I can't stand his novels though and have only read two.

Who is Dan Brown?

He wrote Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code.

Without even visiting the site, I can say with great certainty that I write much like ANY dead author....very little, if any.

He wrote Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code.

So I you mean to say if I write a story, I can make millions out of it?

H.P. Lovecraft.

2nd sample... and both were rather lengthy.

Harry Harrison

3rd sample, which I just wrote off the top of my head...

Dan Brown.

And a fourth... based on two full pages I wrote earlier.

Isaac Asimov

I can see a trend here...

I've tried a bunch of my posts, and I keep ending up with Dan Brown.

so that means all my posts are worth millions if I could expand them into short stories.

AEO, just take all your posts, arrange them in random order and publish it.

This is crazy as Soylent Green is one of my all time favs! :)

Apparently I write like Harry Harrison, (born March 12, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He is also (with Brian Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

now that's an idea...

I should do that with pcad's posts as well.

I grew up reading science fiction and fantasy... it would seem that my writing style is reflective of that.

Apparently, I write like a combination between Oscar Wilde, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood, according to this website (http://iwl.me/).

(Methodology: the little scientist in me was not contented with using just one data point. I used 15 random blog posts of mine that were two paragraphs or more as samples, then I took the top three results.)

So who do YOU write like?

Neko, Apparently you write like Margaret Atwood (I cut and pasted your OP!)

Let's see... four different posts, four different results:

James Joyce, Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut.

The last one is rather interesting as I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five at the moment....

Theodor S Geisel :o

someone needs to put Ichy's "the story thread" all together so we can figure out who Foo writes like.

I would guess Pyncheon

I was just kidding before.

Either this thing is schizophrenic, or I am. I suspect the former, since it uses Apple software. :lol:

I used three postings I made in P&R over the past week. First one came back as James Joyce. Second one, Stephen King. Third one, Ian Fleming. Could you possibly make up your mind?

Theodor S Geisel :o

But if you enter excerpts from Geisel it says you write like Vonnegut.

:lol:

Jack Kerouac. I just bring a pen into the john and start scribing furiously until there is no tp left on the roll

edit: pish! It says I write like Stephen King.

Judging by most of the internet, text messages, and Twitter, most of the internet generation writes like a lobotomized and drunk e e cummings.

dang, beat me to ee cummings...

But if you enter excerpts from Geisel it says you write like Vonnegut.

:lol:

Maybe Kurt was a clever plagiarist. :lol:

I write about rhymes
I write all the times

I like eggs green
I eat what I seen

I write like a Suess
Till chased by a moose

This kind of worries me. I wrote about how I felt about my job and it says I write like Stephen King. Maybe because I been institutionalized?

"My life+times in South Florida"

author:Rubin

David Foster Wallace.....someone I've never even heard of before.

William Gibson and David Foster Wallace.

William Gibson and David Foster Wallace.

copy cat

Says I write like Karl Marx on one attempt, and like Jean Paul Sartre on another.

Second try....I still write like David Foster Wallace.

Says I write like Karl Marx on one attempt, and like Jean Paul Sartre on another.

How many times did the word "philosophy" occur in your sample? :p

I gave it five paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum filler text, and it came back with David Foster Wallace.

I gave it the first two paragraphs from Wikipedia's article on David Foster Wallace, and it came back with David Foster Wallace!

Clearly, David Foster Wallace has come back from the dead to pen his own Wikipedia article.

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Dead? No. He's the mayor of Celebration, Florida, the town where one can find Elvis and JFK sipping peanut butter daiquiris out on the screened porch in the early evening, as the heat of the day dissipates. Nixon has been accused of cheating in games of checkers with Johnny Cash, Katherine Hepburn, uncharacteristically has made advances to Paul Newman, and John Lennon and Michael Jackson are collaborating on a new album.

David Foster Wallace.

Snoopy.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Margaret Mitchell.

Margaret Mitchell.

"Why Rhett, whatever do you mean? You can too create schedules for the servants on your iPhone. There's an app for that. The guy at RadioShack told me about it." :D

Who are you who is so learned in the ways of science?

I lol'd at this. Yes I did.

I grew up reading science fiction and fantasy... it would seem that my writing style is reflective of that.

I grew up reading a lot of science fiction too, but apparently I do not write like that and instead write like Oscar Wilde? :wtf::lol:


Neko, Apparently you write like Margaret Atwood (I cut and pasted your OP!)

Too much reading feminist texts, methinks. :lol:


If you fill the box with "David Foster Wallace" over and over, you get James Joyce.
If you fill the box with "James Joyce" over and over, you get Robert Louis Stevenson.
If you fill the box with "Robert Louis Stevenson" over and over, you get H. P. Lovecraft.
If you fill the box with "H. P. Lovecraft" over and over, you get... H. P. Lovecraft.

David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, and Robert Louis Stevenson are all hacks and plagiarists.

lol for exploring the meme!

So I cut and pasted the text of Steve Martin's "Cruel Shoes" into the box and got Dan Brown. Would be interesting to see if this happens for everyone that tries it.

Anna knew She had to have a new pair of shoes today, and Carlo had helped her try on every pair in the store. Carlo spoke wearily, "Well, that's it. That’s every pair of shoes in the place."
"Oh, you must have one more pair. . . .”
"No, not one more . . . . Well, we have the cruel shoes, but no one would want to try . . .
“Yes, let me see the cruel shoes!"
"No, you don't understand, you see, the cruel shoes are . . .'
"Get them!"
Carlo disappeared into the back room for a moment, and then reappeared carrying an ordi­nary shoebox. He took off the lid and re­moved a hideous pair of black and white pumps. But this was not an ordinary pair of black and white pumps; both were left feet, one had a right angle turn with sepa­rate compartments that pointed the toes in impossible directions. The other shoe was six inches long and was curved inward like a rocking chair with a vise and razor blades to hold the foot in place.
Carlo spoke hesitantly, ". . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me."
"But... "Put them on me!"
Carlo knew all arguments were useless. He knelt down before her and forced the feet into the shoes.
The screams were incredible.
Anna crawled over to the mirror and held her bloody feet up where she could see.
"I like them."
She paid Carlo and crawled out of the store into the street.
Later that day, Carlo was overheard saying to a new customer, "Well, that's it. That’s every pair of shoes in the place. Unless, of course, you'd like to try the cruel shoes."

I've checked it with a few of my published articles and I get the same result each time: David Foster Wallace.

From Wikipedia -
"Wallace's novels often combine various writing modes or voices, and incorporate jargon and vocabulary (sometimes invented) from a wide variety of fields. His writing featured self-generated abbreviations and acronyms, long multi-clause sentences, and a notable use of explanatory footnotes and endnotes—often nearly as expansive as the text proper."

Given that I fed this thing 3 articles; one from Journal of Virology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and a recent semi-technical blog post about Clydesdales and Long-Distance Cycling, this result doesn't surprise me. Most of what I write reads like product usage instructions.

Edgar Allan Poe: Editorial on slowing growth in China
David Foster Wallace: Story on worker wages at car manufacturers
H.P. Lovecraft: Editorial on China's exchange rate policy
David Foster Wallace: A silly blog post I wrote about peanut butter and mayonnaise

Hrrm.

Kurt Vonnegut, apparently. With touches of Ian Fleming and Douglas Adams.

However, I sign all of my correspondence as James Joyce. I will change that immediately.