I Write Like Website

[MelissaBaby]

Someone mentioned this site in another thread and I thought I'd check it out, just for fun.

So, I entered samples from four of my stories. The first one said that I write like Agatha Christie. Apparently, that is a common comparison. I ran the second sample and got Stephen King. I can see that.

The third and fourth comparisons were James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, and I began to suspect they were just fucking with me.

I Write Like

 

[WinsomeWeb]

On behalf of Agatha Christie, I am insulted that it thinks she and I are even close in style.

 

[XerXesXu]

Someone mentioned this site in another thread and I thought I'd check it out, just for fun.

So, I entered samples from four of my stories. The first one said that I write like Agatha Christie. Apparently, that is a common comparison. I ran the second sample and got Stephen King. I can see that.

The third and fourth comparisons were James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, and I began to suspect they were just fucking with me.

I Write Like

Go with Stephen.

Agatha - well if you went on date with her you'd have to take a shovel to dig her up.
No one understands anything James says, and Vlad is a pervert.

 

[KeithD]

One came out Stephen King, two Agatha Christie, three Anne Rice.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Go with Stephen.

Agatha - well if you went on date with her you'd have to take a shovel to dig her up.
No one understands anything James says, and Vlad is a pervert.

I was thinking I'd double check and see if there were some typos in the sample they compared to Joyce. That might explain it.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Go with Stephen.

Agatha - well if you went on date with her you'd have to take a shovel to dig her up.
No one understands anything James says, and Vlad is a pervert.

Three samples: Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, and James Joyce. And the last sample was far from my most Joycean.

By the way, XXX, if you'd like me to explain Finnegans Wake or any of his other works for you, let me know.

 

[AlphaLyon]

I also got Agatha Christie.
For fun, I took some Hemingway and put it in; said he wrote like Stephen King, so...

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I tested it with multiple extracts from three different stories, mixing them up, one of which hasn't been published yet. I found that it consistently chose Stephen King for one of them, Cory Doctorow for another one and the unpublished one kept alternating between Agatha Christie and Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[JanusGoneAwry]

Three excerpts and three authors...Anne Rice, Dan Brown and Theodor Geisel

 

[NotWise]

Someone mentioned this site in another thread and I thought I'd check it out, just for fun.

So, I entered samples from four of my stories. The first one said that I write like Agatha Christie. Apparently, that is a common comparison. I ran the second sample and got Stephen King. I can see that.

The third and fourth comparisons were James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, and I began to suspect they were just fucking with me.

I Write Like

I played with the site a few years ago and decided it was BS.

 

[XerXesXu]

Three samples: Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, and James Joyce. And the last sample was far from my most Joycean.

By the way, XXX, if you'd like me to explain Finnegans Wake or any of his other works for you, let me know.

Uhhh. No thanks. I can't see that ending well.

 

[itismeinnz]

Another Agatha Christie. A kinky ol' gal if it is based on content rather than style.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I'm with NW. A heavily Aussie romance as Agatha? And a short SciFi as Joyce? Totally BS.

 

[Jada59]

H. G. Wells?

Let me try a bit of one of my novels. Of course I caught a typo right away.

I got Agatha on that. And it's humor! I don't think so...

 

[Wifetheif]

Someone mentioned this site in another thread and I thought I'd check it out, just for fun.

So, I entered samples from four of my stories. The first one said that I write like Agatha Christie. Apparently, that is a common comparison. I ran the second sample and got Stephen King. I can see that.

The third and fourth comparisons were James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, and I began to suspect they were just fucking with me.

I Write Like

That thing has a faulty algorithm. Four samples, one complete story. Three times I came up as Agatha Christie which is complete bullocks and once as Anne Rice, which I can kind of see although I am more explicit than she is. It probably has about a dozen or so "go to" writers. I'm going to freak with its little mind and try some Robert E Howard. Be back with the results soon.

 

[AlphaLyon]

Found a better one...

I found this site to be a lot more accurate to my writing style.

(edited to denote new/different/alternate site.)

 

[Wifetheif]

That thing has a faulty algorithm. Four samples, one complete story. Three times I came up as Agatha Christie which is complete bullocks and once as Anne Rice, which I can kind of see although I am more explicit than she is. It probably has about a dozen or so "go to" writers. I'm going to freak with its little mind and try some Robert E Howard. Be back with the results soon.

Well, a Conan excerpt came up as the style of A. Conan Doyle. Aside from the character name, the two writers could not be more different! Their styles are complete contrasts as is everything else about their respective fictions. You MIGHT be able to argue that they are both "action" authors but Sherlock Holmes and Conan the Barbarian are about as much as an antithesis you will find.

 

[Wifetheif]

Well, a Conan excerpt came up as the style of A. Conan Doyle. Aside from the character name, the two writers could not be more different! Their styles are complete contrasts as is everything else about their respective fictions. You MIGHT be able to argue that they are both "action" authors but Sherlock Holmes and Conan the Barbarian are about as much as an antithesis you will find.

A Heminway excerpt claimed he wrote like Ian Fleming! Now Fleming had a lean style but in what universe are the two even comparable? -- That site is a complete joke!

 

[Wifetheif]

I found this site to be a lot more accurate to my writing style.

That one is just as bad. I fed it a Heminway sample and claimed that I wrote it The closest match Was Stephen Crane -- So a swing and a complete miss!
The Robert E. Howard excerpt came out as a match fo ... wait for it ... Bertrand Russell!
Yeah, this site is crap on top of crap!

 

[Wifetheif]

That one is just as bad. I fed it a Heminway sample and claimed that I wrote it The closest match Was Stephen Crane -- So a swing and a complete miss!
The Robert E. Howard excerpt came out as a match fo ... wait for it ... Bertrand Russell!
Yeah, this site is crap on top of crap!

A short erotic horror story I posted here recently called "The Gift" came up as being from Lucy Maud Montgomery who wrote "Anne of the Green Gables!" I think her readers would be shocked by my writing!

 

[AlphaLyon]

That one is just as bad. I fed it a Heminway sample and claimed that I wrote it The closest match Was Stephen Crane -- So a swing and a complete miss!
The Robert E. Howard excerpt came out as a match fo ... wait for it ... Bertrand Russell!
Yeah, this site is crap on top of crap!

I didn't say it was good, I said it was better, since it at least gave a range and degree of similarity to different authors. Plus, it explains its methodology for ascription.

 

[SimonDoom]

I fed it portions of two of my stories. One turned up Cory Doctorow, the other turned up Stephen King.

I fed it a sample of Henry James's writing. James has one of the most distinctive prose styles I know. It said the closest match was Charles Dickens. The century is right, at least.

I'm calling BS on this one.

 

[_Lynn_]

I used portions from three different unfinished stories. The results were: Cory Doctorow, Mario Puzo, and Stephen King.

 

[KeithD]

Just for kicks, I ran the stories from the six-story winter holidays anthology I'm reviewing for one last time now. Three of the stories came up Agatha Christie, two Arthur Clarke, and one Cory Doctorow.

 

[SamScribble]

I hereby withdraw the story I was considering entering into An Ode to Mickey Spillane. On the basis of the first 500 or so words, I Write Like tells me that I write like Agatha Christie. If anyone needs me, I shall be up in Harrogate, taking tea in Bettys (Estd 1919).