Who do you write like?

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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited July 2010
    A close high school friend of mine is a an author, she just published a novel about the main character from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter called Hester: The Missing Years of The Scarlet Letter. She took a sample of her prose from the novel and the site came back saying she wrote like Stephen King!
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,726
    edited July 2010
    Norm Apter wrote: »
    I have that one on the bookshelf, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

    981 pages of text plus an additional 104 pages of end notes (388)...and this for a work of fiction. I've heard that one should keep two bookmarks: one of the text, one for the notes. Not quite ready to take the plunge yet...

    It was my old roommate's favorite book (and author). He would occasionally pick out certain relevant sections for me to read during late night drinking/discussions and that was really about enough for me. I have a hard time getting through a 200 page book let alone that monster. The text is tiny too!

    EDIT: I should mention, that roommate majored in 'creative writing' and received a Masters in the same. His goal in life was to be a writer. Unfortunately, he never had enough drive to finish any of his works and seek to get them published. He now works for a staffing company.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited July 2010
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    James Joyce. That is all.

    Me too!
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Whether you a grammar **** of a "foenetic" speller, we all have a style.

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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,426
    edited July 2010
    I pasted a couple of paragraphs from a grad class I recently took, got H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.

    Then I typed in Walter Payton's verse from The Super Bowl Shuffle and got Cory Doctorow. :eek:

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  • doggie750
    doggie750 Posts: 1,160
    edited July 2010
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited July 2010
    I got James Joyce, Cory Doctorow, and Margaret Atwood on three different samples...
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  • BrettT1
    BrettT1 Posts: 560
    edited July 2010
    I write like
    Harry Harrison

    carry on, please.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited July 2010
    "I write like
    David Foster Wallace"

    I guess it's time to google the guy and see who he is.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    <!-- Begin I Write Like Badge -->
    <div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png&quot; style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/f0797b6c&quot; style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">William Shakespeare</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by M
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    I entered a different screed and got this:


    <!-- Begin I Write Like Badge -->
    <div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png&quot; style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/cfe99843&quot; style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">Dan Brown</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by M
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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,960
    edited July 2010
    HP Lovecraft? Who the hell is that? :)
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    Shakespeare, Dan Brown, same guy really.
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  • j allen
    j allen Posts: 363
    edited July 2010
    This is really cool. I put in an unfinished short story I had sitting in my documents, and it said I write like H. P. Lovecraft. Given that I count him as a major influence to my fiction, I took it as high praise. :)

    Put in a lab report I did for school, and it apparently resembles Dan Brown. He must be a rather dry fellow.

    Threw in more of my short stories, and they come up as either Lovecraft or Arthur C. Clarke. :)
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited July 2010
    The Zodiac.

    I'm not trying again.
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  • j allen
    j allen Posts: 363
    edited July 2010
    The more writing samples I put in, the more Lovecraft results I get. It simultaneously makes me happy, and makes me want to try to vary my writing style a bit more.

    One of my shorts came back Chuck Palahniuk. Apparently it was grittier than the rest :D
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2010
    Pycroft wrote: »
    HP Lovecraft? Who the hell is that? :)

    You don't watch much TV James.....his horror tales have been scripted and shot!

    ..Shakespeare and Dan Brown...that's pretty much in line with what I said above. Now there's a pretty pair.

    James Joyce....EARLY or LATE, because they ARE quite different. For the late Joyce all you need is a Thesaurus, ONE event and about 30,000 different words describing it. It's actually pretty easy to simulate Joyce...but very very difficult to actually write like him?

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2010
    Bubinga99 wrote: »
    I pasted in some Cory Doctorow and it came back H. P. Lovecraft

    Ding! Ding! We have a winner! This is the best post in this thread so far. The program can't even identify an ACTUAL author that's included in its parameters?? Probably written by a tech who doesn't really know much about literature?

    But it is fun, nonetheless! Nice thread JSTAS. Where do you dig this stuff up?

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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited July 2010
    After reading your comments I drove this thing with various posts and...

    1. I write like
    Stephen King

    2. I write like
    Cory Doctorow

    3. I write like
    Raymond Chandler

    4. I write like
    William Gibson

    5. I write like
    David Foster Wallace

    6. I write like
    Stephen King

    7. I write like
    Douglas Adams

    8. I write like
    Cory Doctorow

    ...and my impression, this thing is totally out of wack!
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  • JimKellyfan
    JimKellyfan Posts: 696
    edited July 2010
    Helen Keller
    :eek:
    No, really.
    :confused:
    I write like
    Stephenie Meyer
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  • Janne
    Janne Posts: 139
    edited July 2010
    I write like David Foster Wallace and my paperbacks are on sale on Amazon.com :(
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    cfrizz wrote: »
    :eek::D:D:D:D:D You guys are CRAZY!!!! It told me I write like Kurt Vonegut. Now I gotta go check out his writing to see if it's true!

    Ummm Telly Savalas Joe?:D ROTFLMAO!

    Telly Savalas is long dead . . . you have to settle for Kojack!:D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    Well since I've found out that I write like Cory Doctorow I've had this urge to burn the flag, infringe on copyrights, and send lots of money to activist judges. Whew what a nightmare.:D
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2010
    billbillw wrote: »
    It was my old roommate's favorite book (and author). He would occasionally pick out certain relevant sections for me to read during late night drinking/discussions and that was really about enough for me. I have a hard time getting through a 200 page book let alone that monster. The text is tiny too!

    EDIT: I should mention, that roommate majored in 'creative writing' and received a Masters in the same. His goal in life was to be a writer. Unfortunately, he never had enough drive to finish any of his works and seek to get them published. He now works for a staffing company.

    That's an interesting story about your roommate. The fact he didn't do what he wanted does not make him very different from the majority of human beings. A better question would be 'what kind of human being is he now'? Good, happy, kind, compassionate or the opposite. In the end most will not realize their dreams but the life they lived is really their 'legacy'. The reason I ask is because I know a lot of people like this and some are some of the best human beings I've ever met?

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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Telly Savalas is long dead . . . you have to settle for Kojack!:D

    The day I hear they are doing a remake of this great series I'm gonna pitch a fit! Telly Savalas WAS Kojak, I won't accept some lame replacement!
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  • ShinAce
    ShinAce Posts: 1,194
    edited July 2010
    Apparently I write like Coco the chimp!
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    cfrizz wrote: »
    The day I hear they are doing a remake of this great series I'm gonna pitch a fit! Telly Savalas WAS Kojak, I won't accept some lame replacement!

    Agreed! He was the epitome of cool.

    However I wonder how a shaved headed Christian Bale with a mole pasted to his face would do as Kojack. He really goes all out to play a character.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited July 2010
    2 work articles have netted me David Foster Wallace and Dan Brown.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited July 2010
    Cory Doctorow.......Never heard of him.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    Even the nine times he's been mentioned in this thread? :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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