Well, then. . .

[rolanni]

From pbray, the "I Write Like. . ." analysis tool

Using the first chapter of Carousel Tides:

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

And the first chapter of Mouse and Dragon reaps this:

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Who do you write like?

Comments

[reedrover]

H.P. Lovecraft!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

And one of the Dragon Tide stories gives us Rudyard Kipling, while Misfits gives us Robert Louis Stevenson, and we also get a Dan Brown -- I think that was Yulie's story -- while Masterwalk gives us Isaac Asimov, my own The Inventoried gets me Chuck Palaniuk, my And Hawks for Heralds gets me JK Rowling, and meanwhile, our "A Night at The Opera" gets us L. Frank Baum.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is why I like your writing so much. It's never stale. Although I had thought the style was rather consistent.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

This begins to sound like a random author generator . . .

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Who the hell is Chuck Palahniuk? The first couple of pages of POWERS gives me that . . .

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Wrote Fight Club says here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I Googled. Can I get the movie deal?

[wolflahti.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see the code for this so-called analysis. It seems far too fast and probably just yanks a random name from the list based on word count or something equally meaningless.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

If it was random ... I think the results would be different for putting the same item in twice --- I retried several and got the intial result the second time... which could also be random.

[wolflahti.livejournal.com]

It had better be random. If someone really thinks I write like Dan Brown, I'm going to to be pretty upset!

[herbmcsidhe.livejournal.com]

My poetry came out to Isaac Asimov, a book I'm working on was HP Lovecraft and the articles for the Witches' Alamanac were Dan Brown.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Based on my own experiments, I write like Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Brown, or Margaret Atwood.

Who do I write like??

[capricchio.livejournal.com]

I think I am completely depressed. I dropped a piece of a monthly technical report I wrote that I had to hand, into it and it came up 'Dan Brown". Thinking that this was just a random author generator, I picked up different pieces of dfferent reports to see what came up. It did say a section was like Stephen King but I 'm pretty sure that was a section essentially written by one of my other engineers. Another section came up Isaac Asimov but that may also have been generally scooped from a different engineer. The depressing thing was picking up pieces of other reports that I know I wrote, all came up 'Dan Brown'. Now I like to read Dan Brown stories just fine but they all have the same plot line and he isn't the best writer I can think of.
Sigh. I think this means I need to start my reports earlier so they are written better........

What's behind the analysis?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Being curious as to what's behind the analysis, I looked around the coding robots site and found this page http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2010/07/09/i-write-like/

Here the author says, "Currently it analyzes vocabulary (use of words), number of words, commas, and semicolons in sentences, number of sentences with quotation marks and dashes (direct speech)." He also indicates that there are about 40 authors in the current database.

Mike

[(Anonymous)]

That's kinda cool. And amusing, definitely.
Wonder what it would do with the Gettysburg Address? :)
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

[(Anonymous)]

I got Stephen King five times, James Joyce two times, Dan Brown five times, Kurt Vonnegut two times, J. K. Rowling two times, Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens two times, Stephenie Meyer two times, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, and David Foster Wallace two times. that's all of my short stories!

~Lizah C