I write like Vladimir Nabokov!

[sweepthefloor]

There is this silly website "I write like" If you copy and paste some of your text into the box the computer decides what author your style resembles. The sample I used is part of a novel that I never finished, and since abandoned (for now).

I think it is pretty hilarious.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

There is this silly website "I write like" If you copy and paste some of your text into the box the computer decides what author your style resembles. The sample I used is part of a novel that I never finished, and since abandoned (for now).

I think it is pretty hilarious.

Very suspicious! My first sample was supposedly like Stephen King, the second like James Joyce and the third like Don Brown. Not very consistent, yanno?

 

[Boota]

It said I write like David Foster Wallace. Never read him, though. Should check that out.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is interesting. One story that I did, I wrote like Kurt Vonnegut. Another one was like the writing of Chuck Palahniuk.

 

[glynndah]

Each one of mine was different: L. Frank Baum, Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, etc.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I just did it again and the magic computer reveals David Foster Wallace.
I will not quit my day job!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think it just generates random authors. Try sending the same text three or four different times.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Each one of mine was different: L. Frank Baum, Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, etc.

It is surely amusing for a click or two!

 

[sweepthefloor]

I think it just generates random authors. Try sending the same text three or four different times.

That would over work me!

 

[sweepthefloor]

It said I write like David Foster Wallace. Never read him, though. Should check that out.

me too!

 

[mynameisben]

It said I write like Paris Hilton, but with less wit.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Okay, put in the same text three different times and you get the same author each time. Interesting. It thinks I write like Dan Brown. I don't particularly like Dan Brown but if people will pay me like they do Dan Brown, I could get used to it!

 

[manyeyedhydra]

I'm all over the shop apparently.

James Joyce, Nabokov, Stephen King, William Gibson. Lovecraft a couple of times.

No Dan Brown.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Oops, tell a lie. One of the sections came out a Brown. Another came out a Stephanie Meyer (story - hang your head in shame ). Margaret Atwood a couple of times. An Anne Rice. All seems a bit random. James Joyce seemed to be the most common.

 

[Darkniciad]

All 1st Lit page of Ch.1 ( where applicable )

Danica & Sisters of the Mists - William Gibson
To Catch a Merchant Princess - Neil Gaiman
Blackhawk Hall - Charles Dickens
Ebon Genesis - Mario Puzo
Home by the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

As Les

Ghost of a Chance - David Foster Wallace
The Offering - Dan Brown
Secret of the Wood - Chuck Palahniuk
Home by the Sea - David Foster Wallace
It Cuts Both Ways - Stephen King

Third Name

P - David Foster Wallace
R - Kurt Vonnegut
N - David Foster Wallace
G - William Gibson
T - Dan Brown

 

[D_K_Moon]

David Foster Wallace

Margaret Mitchell

Anne Rice

 

[Boxlicker101]

Aha! I put in the second part of "Mrs. Claus Cums Once a Year" and it said I write like Vladimir Nobokov.

 

[sweepthefloor]

It said I write like Paris Hilton, but with less wit.

<giggles>

 

[sweepthefloor]

David Foster Wallace

Margaret Mitchell

Anne Rice

We have a lot of David Foster Wallace going on around here. I looked up this author out of curiosity, because I am clearly not sleeping. The man liked math, and he killed himself.

 

[Xelebes]

I used this snippet:

The day, warm; the night, dark. Lo, the Chestnut Tree shone on.

And it gave me Nabokov. Can anyone corroborate?

 

[amicus]

Ursula K. Le Guin... poem

Charles Dickens... poem

James Joyce... poem

James Joyce... different poem

Dan Brown... latest thread on art

Stephen King... story excerpt

Stephen King... story excerpt

William Gibson,,, story excerpt

~~~

Gads...two James Joyce and two Stephen King and I am fond of neither!

gads!

 

[amicus]

I used this snippet:



And it gave me Nabokov. Can anyone corroborate?[/QUOTE]

~~~

The day, warm; the night, dark. Lo, the Chestnut Tree shone on.

Same snippet, same result...hmmmm?

ami

 

[past_perfect]

Hm, it'd be interesting to know how many famous writers are actually in their database - my results were pretty much the same as those mentioned here before:

Stephen King; Dan Brown; Kurt Vonnegut; David Foster Wallace

Even my Joyce pastiche was attributed to Stephen King ...

 

[IsabellaKing]

It said I write like Paris Hilton, but with less wit.

That's not true - you're wittier than her.

 

[sr71plt]

Very suspicious! My first sample was supposedly like Stephen King, the second like James Joyce and the third like Don Brown. Not very consistent, yanno?

My supposition is that this would be the outcome for any good writer. Writers write to the style of the particular piece they are working on. What we think of as specific writers' styles is usually what they fell into when they became lazy and didn't want to work that hard with it anymore.