I write like....

[jdnunyer]

It would be better if the results told you the top 5 authors you are most like, and how confident the software is of the match, IMHO.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I tried three of my non porn stories:

1. An alternate history about the Babushka Woman seen in the Zapruder film at Deeley Plaza.
Result: I write like Leo Tolstoy.

2. A children's story about kids trick-or-treating at a formerly abandoned house into which an elderly couple has recently moved.
Result: I write like Stephen King.

3. A medieval adventure story including words like knight, castle, destrier.
Result: I write Like Robert Louis Stevenson

So, it's bullshit.

I write like none of those writers, and certainly am not talented enough to switch from one style to another. What it did do was find a couple of words which would figure more prominently in one author's vocabulary than in any other author considered.

 

[PennLady]

I had fun and pasted in stories and parts of stories and got the following results:

Who Cares -- Charles Dickens
Numbers Game/Morning Sun/Island -- William Gibson
The Hunted Key/The Collection -- Chuck Pahlaniuk
Lost in the Woods -- JK Rowling
Make a Wish -- Kurt Vonnegut
Horses/Guilt -- Stephen King
Gifts -- JD Salinger
Relationship Biz -- Raymond Chandler
Ghosts -- Dan Brown
Game Misconduct -- Jack London
Nothing Gets Through -- David Foster Wallace
Exiled -- PG Wodehouse

The Dan Brown thing is almost insulting!

 

[jdnunyer]

You may also like this, which guesses your gender. And, unlike the "I Write Like" tool, it tells you how confident it is in its guess.

I've tried a few of my pieces, and the software consistently produces a weak guess that I'm female. Interesting.

Then, just for the heck of it, I tried some of my academic work. Strongly male. Only when I write smut do I write like a woman...

 

[Liar]

Apparently, I swing between William Gibson, H. P. Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling, and Vladimir Nabokov.

That's what I get whatever I paste into there.

Haven't dared try it on any poems yet. Might get interresting.

 

[PennLady]

You may also like this, which guesses your gender. And, unlike the "I Write Like" tool, it tells you how confident it is in its guess.

I've tried a few of my pieces, and the software consistently produces a weak guess that I'm female. Interesting.

Then, just for the heck of it, I tried some of my academic work. Strongly male. Only when I write smut do I write like a woman...

Okay, that's funny. I put in about 600 words of a nonhuman story I'm working on and for the "informal" genre, I rated weak male, for the formal, weak female. I must be androgynous!

 

[jdnunyer]

Okay, that's funny. I put in about 600 words of a nonhuman story I'm working on and for the "informal" genre, I rated weak male, for the formal, weak female. I must be androgynous!

Or European!

 

[PennLady]

Or European!

Yes, it said that too, that the weak emphasis could indicate European. Wrong again!

 

[jdnunyer]

Same here.

What I learned today: I write like Dan Brown, if Dan Brown was a European woman. Except when I write like James Joyce. Or Stephen King. Or Nabokov. If they were European women.

Good thing I don't plan to quit my day job anytime soon.

 

[_Lynn_]

I analyzed portions from five different stories. Informal results ranged from 57% to 86% male. Formal results varied.

 

[Sugary_Comfort]

lol I put in another piece and it came out the same thing, Neil Gaiman.

I figured maybe I wrote differently for each character in this one book I'm writing so the first one I chose one character's excerpt and then for this one I chose another character's excerpt.

I think I'll try it for all five of them and see.

 

[Sugary_Comfort]

Oh just tried the other one.

So for character excerpts this is what I got for each one on each of the writing styles:

Caseerna: Margaret Atwood, male for informal weak female for formal

Kaelynna: Neil Gaiman, male for informal and weak male for formal

Sorena: Neil Gaiman, male for informal and weak male for formal

Emiri: L. Frank Baum (haha yay!), male for informal and weak female for formal

Ellorah: Neil Gaiman, weak male for informal and weak female for formal

So, lol, it seems overall I write like Neil Gaiman

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... I write like Dan Brown, if Dan Brown was a European woman. Except when I write like James Joyce. Or Stephen King. Or Nabokov. If they were European women.

Apparently Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Beatrix Potter and I are either Male or Weak Male depending upon whether we are judged to be writing formally or informally.

Just to check, I tried a male writer. Charles Dickens was judged a Weak Male, starting from the opening of "A Christmas Carol" at “Marley was dead...” but transgendered to a Weak Female by the time the Cratchits sat down to Christmas pudd.

At least Charley was consistent, whether writing formally of informally.

 

[Feotakahari]

Gender Guesser loves to call me a girl, no matter what I write, so I'll try "I Write Like."

My low fantasy romance is Mark Twain.

My erotic horror story (on this site) is J.K. Rowling.

My superhero story is Cory Doctorow.

All right, I have got to know what algorithm this thing uses. This is a link to the source code; can anyone read this stuff?

 

[Boxlicker101]

This might be just random authors' names. I tried five different stories, and got Jane Austen, Ian Fleming, David Foster Wallace, Mario Puzo, and Chuck Palahniuk.

I think I'll try some chapters instead of different stories.

 

[Black13]

This might be just random authors' names. I tried five different stories, and got Jane Austen, Ian Fleming, David Foster Wallace, Mario Puzo, and Chuck Palahniuk.

I think I'll try some chapters instead of different stories.

So, I guess that means you should write a novel about a british family who's father is killed, causing the mother and two daughters to provide for themselves through organized crime, creating an underground gambling ring which draws the attention of a very handsome suitor who is actually involved in espionage; that way, when the two of them try to make sense of their relationship, the woman realizes that her suitor is actually a projection of her own desires which has created in her an alter ego that has been setting her up through her organized crime syndicate to take down the british monarchy. Lots of people get shot, Westminster Abbey goes up in a cloud of smoke, and there are lots of footnotes that disrupt the flow of the plot.