Monday, July 19, 2010
Who do I write like?
I had copied my last blog post into the analysis. This was that result.
Being a skeptic of this kind of thing, I posted a recent day from my journal. That analysis said I write like Stephen King.
I then posted a blog entry from a month ago. In June I wrote like David Foster Wallace.
The only one of the three I have read is Stephen King. I used to read every book he wrote until I got to IT and was too scared to finish it. Remember that; the clown in the sewers looking up from the sidewalk drains?
I'm going to conclude from this that I write like myself.
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Oh come on now I figured I'd get Hemingway, I use a lot of short simple sentences but I got Steven King and some science fiction writer women. I thought it was fun!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly do. And I LIKE it. Quiz-type things like that are fun -- I love 'em... But...
ReplyDeleteWhere is a analyzer? I might like to try it.
ReplyDeleteI might have to try that. You might enjoy the site that analyzes your writing to tell you if you are male or female:
ReplyDeletehttp://incognitoagent.blogspot.com/2007/05/well-im-not-dumb-but-i-cant-understand.html
Coffypot: the analyzer has a link on the square at the top of the post.
ReplyDeletehee hee. i put in my last post and it told me i write like charles dickens. wtf? charles must have been a dreamer.
ReplyDeleteLOL... I entered my post of 07/15/2010 and it told me that I write like Cory Doctorow... whoever the heck THAT is...
ReplyDeleteOf course, I was expecting to be told that I wrote like a 3rd Grader... or something like that... me and this affliction that I have for using ellipses...
hahahaha...
~shoes~
PS: I just posted the same entry to the link of Secret Agent Woman... it told me I was female...
ReplyDeleteHAR!!
~shoes~
Yes, but do you have Stephen King's money?
ReplyDeleteAs long as I don't write like Jackie Collins, I'll be a happy camper.
i think you write a very fine very well educated
ReplyDeleteEnglish
as far as someone from Coburg Germany
can judge ;-) that
We had this on our side of the pond a few days ago. I have to tell you a sample of your writing brought up 'Bret Harte'. But I shouldn't worry too much: it's unlikely that feeding a few crisp, cogent lines from Bret Harte into the box would give the result 'Charlene'. But who knows?
ReplyDeleteBathwater: It was fun. But when you enter your writing from several different days, it shouldn't say a different person. I mean, does Stephen King write like Hemingway one day and Wallace another?
ReplyDeleteSulpicia: I like quizzies too. I don't like the Facebook ones, because you are forced to post them on your wall.
Secret agent woman: I don't want to know. I am secure in my female self.
Sulpicia: That's not so bad. Charles Dickens is ok. Being a dreamer is ok too. I think writers are dreamers.
Red Shoes: Embrace the female!!! It's pretty good being a woman, from my side of things!
Wolynski: No. I wouldn't want Stephen King's money either.
Rennschneke: Thank you for your kind words.
Christopher: Who is Bret Hartre!? I don't think the reverse would work. LOL
I was supposed to write like the bloke who wrote Fight Club. I didn't bother to try a second time!
ReplyDeleteI loved that Stephen King book - I can't believe you didn't finish it you wuss! "we all float down here Charlene"
i'm gonna keep trying until it tells me i write like heinlein.
ReplyDeleteGood conclusion that you ultimately came to, IMO.
ReplyDeleteUrban Cynic: I know I'm a wuss. Maybe when you see real evil, reading about it digs up buried memory?
ReplyDeletebilly pilgram: It seems to be malleable, so that might work.
well yeah because there is only one like you...embrase your uniqueness...and just so you know I can't spell
ReplyDeleteI have quickly scanned your blog after your nice comment on mine. I have seen Urban Cynic and am a friend of Wolynski. Will return later for a closer look. Seems wonderful. Dang Wolynski, she is everywhere!
ReplyDeleteThe first time I tried it I got Stephanie Meyer (GAG!).
ReplyDeleteThe next time I got Raymond Chandler. I think I got him because I used words like 'stairs', 'kicked', and 'dark'.
When I put in some Booth Tarkington text, it came up P.G. Wodehouse.
That "I write like" is just everywhere isn't it? i too have played with it and gotten several different results. It's fun, but in the end...the best person to write like IS yourself, don't you think? :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by & commenting on my blog today, by the way. I appreciate the tip about Bing. I checked it out, and you are right: worth the trip just for the daily photo alone!
-C
Three different posts, three different authors: Dan Brown, David Foster Wallace and H.P. Lovecraft (which is cool for a Rhode Islander).
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