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Who do I write like?


TNTOS

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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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Apparently I write like Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells and J.R.R. Tolkien. I'm now highly suspicious that this is just some kind of random name generator. It was awfully quick to process these excerpts.

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I just typed in random letters/gibberish (they weren't even words) and put in commas, periods, etc since it has to be a paragraph. Apparently I write like Stephenie Meyer. I'm pretty sure there is a joke in there somewhere.

 

~Soran

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I put in an excerpt from My Immortal just to test something out.

 

The thing said I write like J. K. Rowling.

 

So yeah, I'm pretty sure this is completely accurate.

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I put in an excerpt from <em class='bbc'> My Immortal</em> just to test something out.

 

The thing said I write like J. K. Rowling.

 

So yeah, I'm pretty sure this is completely accurate.

It is speculated that J.K. Rowling wrote "My Immortal" to troll the fans. Food for thought....

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Apparently I write very similarly to H.P. Lovecraft and Dan Brown.

 

This makes sense.

 

Also, regardless of how accurate it is, it's still a fun little thing. I'm enjoying it. :P

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I'm consistently getting H.P. Lovecraft and Douglas Adams as I input the stories with vocal styles influenced directly by them. I think I'm okay with this.

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I got Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow twice in a row, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen King, David Foster Wallace - all from various blog entries.

 

From my epic, I got Dan Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur C. Clarke (again), Vladimir Nabokov, H. P. Lovecraft, Dan Brown (again), Dan Brown (again again), Douglas Adams, J. K. Rowling, Dan Brown (again again again), and finally ... Dan Brown.

 

I must secretly be Dan Brown.

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