I Write Like Raymond Chandler.

[NOIRTRASH]

I submitted some of NERVOUS NELLY to I WRITE LIKE ,an d Chandler is the verdict.

I have no idea what their screen involves but Chandler wrote stand alone scenes he could insert or remove at will. Its how I like to write. NERVOUS NELLY starts with a purse snatching and can go anywhere. At the end the victim of the purse anatch shoots Nelly and hangs herself with clothesline.

 

[FantasyXY]

Fun little app

Huh,

I plugged in several excerpts from different stories. I got different answers each time. The only author that came up more than once for me was Kurt Vonnegut, but that was only three out of probably 15 entries. The three were from cuts of the same story, so I guess that makes some sense.

I suppose that this means I write like... Me.

This "I Write Like" tool is a fun little toy though. Worth checking out.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Huh,

I plugged in several excerpts from different stories. I got different answers each time. The only author that came up more than once for me was Kurt Vonnegut, but that was only three out of probably 15 entries. The three were from cuts of the same story, so I guess that makes some sense.

I suppose that this means I write like... Me.

This "I Write Like" tool is a fun little toy though. Worth checking out.

Alas few write like Princess Lovecraft, The Texicano. or Pilette.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

It's not a very accurate tool. I think it tracks IPs and gives the same answer as it gave you the first time. I'm basing this on the fact that I pasted in stories of mine in several different styles, and then a few other people's, including some low rated fuck and fuck again ones, and it always said Agatha Christie. And the first one I put in wasn't, to put it mildly, in Christie's style.

I think I was at this site before, with a different IP, and it decided I was like Emily Brontë. And yeah, not so much.

By fiddling I got a different IP, and learned that "Mary had a little lamb" was written in Vladimir Nabokov's style. Imagine his surprise.

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't give these sorts of things much weight, but they're fun to try out if you don't take them seriously.

I plugged a few paragraphs of one of my stories in, and it told me I write like Stephen King. I would not have guessed that. I haven't intentionally emulated him.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

It's not a very accurate tool. I think it tracks IPs and gives the same answer as it gave you the first time. I'm basing this on the fact that I pasted in stories of mine in several different styles, and then a few other people's, including some low rated fuck and fuck again ones, and it always said Agatha Christie. And the first one I put in wasn't, to put it mildly, in Christie's style.

I think I was at this site before, with a different IP, and it decided I was like Emily Brontë. And yeah, not so much.

By fiddling I got a different IP, and learned that "Mary had a little lamb" was written in Vladimir Nabokov's style. Imagine his surprise.

All I know is most LIT stories are cut from the same chunk of shit and smell alike.

In terms of noir Chandler is the gold standard. All go fort the Chandler gusto, because its tough to be better. Every fiction private ye is Philip Marlowe. I read them all and maybe learned the language.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

It's Agatha Christie for me. I tried three of my stories, three times Agatha Christie.

But then I copy-pasted

White Only Ch. 01 from NOIRTRASH...

...and again Agatha Christie

edited: The same for Hazardous Waste...

edited 2: I copy-pasted the first page of the first story of sr71plt, 24 Exeter Place, and guess what...

I usta be 4 feet tall like Prostate Pete but now I'm tall.

 

[sr71plt]

Beginning to feel like the fool yet, Jimbo?

 

[_Lynn_]

I used multiple pieces from eight stories. Stephen King came up the most.

 

[NotWise]

Mine usually came up as Steven King. The last time I tried it I got mostly Margaret Michelle or Steven King. Also (then and now) a couple authors I know nothing about.

The wikipedia article on "I Write Like" contains some other interesting results.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Anne Rice?!

 

[NotWise]

What if others copy-paste the first page of my text:
Dancing in Ethiopia

or the other texts I checked?

White Only Ch. 01
Hazardous Waste...
24 Exeter Place

I'm curious...

I found in the past that if I submitted large chunks of text I always got the same result, but if I submitted a few paragraphs (say 2/3 of a typed page) then I would get more variable results. So here's what I got

Dancing in Ethiopia:

A few paragraphs at the beginning -- Harry Harrison
A few paragraphs at the end -- Cory Doctorow
The entire first Lit page -- Agatha Cristie

White Only:

A few paragraphs at the beginning -- Cory Doctorow
The whole thing -- Agatha Cristie

Hazardous Waste:

A few paragraphs at the beginning -- J.D. Salinger
The whole first lit page -- Agatha Cristie

24 Exeter Place:

A few paragraphs at the beginning -- Ernest Hemmingway
The whole first lit page -- Agatha Cristie.

The site does say that very long texts are cut before processing, but it doesn't say what "very long" is.

So, using my "Oscar's Place" I tried this:

First 442 words -- Stephen King
First 1935 words -- Anne Rice
First 2475 words -- Agatha Cristie
First 6878 words -- Agatha Cristie

I suspect that the "Agatha Cristie" result could just mean that too much text was submitted.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Valid tests isolate variables common to one population. Music is identifiable by composer and period, ditto painting, so why not writers?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO6k_ipgEsI
CHOPIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h4vGRiNYLo
SATIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0I7NbiGZYs
GERSHWIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br7mFYkCGdc
DEBUSSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br7mFYkCGdc
DEBUSSY 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgrqZs2L2k
MOZART

 

[lovecraft68]

Anne Rice?!

I got that one when I did this the first time a thread like this popped up, because there's been a few.

The fact I hate her work was salt in the wounds.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I suspect that the "Agatha Christie" result could just mean that too much text was submitted.

Proof positive the tool is useless. Giving it more text to work with should only improve accuracy; here it's obvious it decreases it. I can think of algorithm flaws that would cause that, and yeah. They just did it wrong.

The wikipedia mentioned above claims it categorized HP Lovecraft's work as like James Joyce's. Yeah, no.

 

[sr71plt]

I think JBJ found the button you press so that the author comes out to be the one you've dreamed that you write like.