Jon Paul over at Sky Meets Ground found and posted this cool little web app over at the "I Write Like" blog. The app prompts you to paste in a chunk of your writing and then it analyzes the writing against a database of famous authors. There's no indication as to how the analysis happens...I suspect it's a combination of sentence and paragraph length/structure, dialog versus scene, adverb/adjective usage, and other word frequency. Still, it would be cool to have a peek at the criteria. :)
In any case, I ran the analyzer against a number of my "Wednesday Writings" posts starting with the first few stand alone stories and then pulling chunks from my ongoing story that I've been working on over the past few weeks.
The results were varied and kind of interesting. Here's who the analyzer suggested my writing is like:
How about you? Who do you write like?
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I got Dan Brown - unfortunately.
That's a pretty wide selection, especially since I would think a couple of them are radically different.
David Foster Wallace. So his works have now been added to my "to read" list. :)
Ooh, very cool indeed. I tried a few different styles of my writing and got James Joyce, Dan Brown, William Shakespeare, and David Foster Wallace. I wonder what the criteria is? Still, pretty cool.
Oh, must try this! Very cool. Thanks for passing it on!
Well that was certainly fun. I got plug in a couple flash fiction published on my blog and one I'm working on, my WIP, and a blog post.
Stephen King for Hannah’s Fate
Vladimir Nabokov for Thanksgiving Feast
William Gibson for FF TBP
Arthur C. Clarke for WIP
Dan Brown for blog post
What a range.
ah, it's a really interesting combination of writers you have in you, Okie :)) Although I must admit I never liked Joyce as an author.
this is wicked cool...off to try it...
For my current wip and most of my pieces, I got Chuck Palahniuk which is amazing! And my other works, I got Stephen King mostly, Mario Puzo...a few others I can't remember. It was funnsies!
LOL! Mine is William Gibson. I love taking these things. :)
Score! I write like Mark Twain! lol I'm good with that!
You should definitely give Hood a read... and read his author's note at the end! It helps a lot with understanding why he wrote the tale the way he did. Personally I loved the Robin Hood movie! In fact, I saw it twice in theatres. It's actually a combination of what the experts believe to be the true Robin Hood stories. It had a really good soundtrack score as well :o)
glad y'all had fun with it. Thanks for stopping by. :)
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