Who do I write like?
Recently I have discovered this delightful little website called I Write Like. You basically paste an excerpt of your writing - blog posts, journey entries, comments, chapters of novels, short stories, poems, whatever - and the website tells you which famous writer you write like.
The best part about this website is that you can do it over and over again, having it analyze excerpts of your writing from different stories. This I did and got different results almost every time. Here's the full list, with certain names bolded for emphasis:
J. K. Rowling
Dan Brown
William Shakespeare
Margaret Mitchell
Kurt Vonnegut
James Joyce
Edgar Allen Poe
James Fenimore Cooper
Arthur Clarke
Harry Harrison
Douglas Adams
George Orwell
David Foster Wallace
L. Frank Baum
Rudyard Kipling
Neil Gaiman
H. P. Lovecraft
I always knew J. K. Rowling had an influence on my writing style (whenever anyone asks who I write like, I tend to say Rowling). But Shakespeare? Joyce? And a bunch of other writers, most of whom I have heard about but never read?
I'm thinking I channel the spirit of a different famous writer every time I sit down to write a story. How else can I be Shakespeare in one story and Joyce in another? Or Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling in the same story (Dimension Hoppers, for those of you who are curious)?
Go on and try the website. Tell me what famous writers you write like in the comments below.
-TNTOS-
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