Who Do You Write Like?

[LastLostIdols]

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[sr71plt]

If you want a real laugh, take a look on the box next to the last page of your stories at Lit. that lists other stories they claim yours are similar to.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Ha! That was funny. I got Anne Rice. Several people told me in the Feedback on my last story. I didn't even know I'd titled it after one of her books.

 

[sr71plt]

Excuse me? Where does this come from? (Lastlostidols' last posting) What was wrong with pointing to that box the Web site provides? As light entertainment. It's what the web site's program is relating one's writing too--to other writers on Lit. That relates directly to your question. I personally find their listings quite funny--and that observation has nothing to do with you. I wasn't speaking of you specifically on that "your." We all have that listing on our stories--and the only ones I look at are the ones on my own stories, so the comment had nothing to do with you personally.

I think this is what LC and gang's hate campaign on me is leading this forum too. It's pushing folks away in droves and it's conditioning everyone to assume that everything I post is nasty--when, in fact, I'm in the position to provide a whole lot of help here--and continue to do so in spite of the LC gang's nasty harrassment.

This crap is going to grind this forum to a halt. And when it does, I'll be the last one standing here, because if I ever did consider leaving the forum, that stopped when LC opened up his campaign to push me off the forum.

 

[JagFarlane]

Hmmm Neil Gaiman and David Foster Wallace

 

[sr71plt]

Oh. Ok. I apologise.

Thanks. I hope the thread can just continue now, but I'm not betting that LC and his friends will let that happen.

I don't take such tests--they tend to be very limited in their comparison programs. I don't know who I actually write like, but I've tried to write like Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene.

 

[sr71plt]

Who's LC?

And yes again I do apologise, you just might want to expand further on your comments. Anything particularly short like your post will make me think someone is being sarcastic & hostile. The analyzer seems more or less designed for analyzing the themes in the content. Looking up the author's it gave me was quite funny as the stories in question had similar traits to their general style.

Thats not to say you write exactly like them.

Most of the stories I look at on my lists don't have the least bit of connection--in style or content or even genre to the story I written. It seems to be just a randomly generated list. Maybe something the web site hasn't fully installed? I think the "who are you like?" programs on the Internet are a bit like this too. I took one recently on one's ideal job. Mine came up "photographer" and I haven't owned a camera for decades.

LC is Lovecraft68.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I write like GEORGE ORWELL.

 

[patientlee]

I write like myself.

 

[pbbj]

I write like myself.

Through some snooping I found out that this means you are Stephen King. Hello Mr King.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

It's interesting because, I can kinda see - maybe - how the programming is generating its results. It doesn't work on meaning or implied meaning - just style of words and 'chronistic'(?) verbs and nouns.

Shame the thing doesn't say whether it thinks you are a 'good' or a 'bad' writer!

I think I am TOTALLY different in personality to the writers the thing threw up 4 me:

Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, and David Foster Wallace.

I would take those guys - but I'm not anything like any of them as a person in RL. And I don't think I write the same kinds of themes that they do at all.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Okay someone just told me 'but you do write transgressional.'

Okay. Maybe... Maybe.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Nice find though, LastLostIdols.

Quite entertaining.

 

[LaRascasse]

According to that site, I write like James Joyce. Which is odd, considering I've never finished something by him.

 

[SamScribble]

I took a similar 'test' some time ago and it suggested that I wrote like Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Interestingly, this is what the director of a creative writing workshop I participated in way back when also said. She thought that it was a bad thing to write like Kurt. Mind you, she was being paid by a major university; I was being paid by royalties. This test, suggests that I write like Cory Doctorow. Having never read Cory Doctorow, I have no idea is this is a good thing. Gosh, who knows?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I write like Ray Bradbury.

It's unfortunate, I have only read one of his books, Fahrenheit 451.

Maybe I should read some more of his work.

ETA: Okay this was for my non-erotic work.

For my erotic works...

I write like Jack London.

And I have never read any of his stuff.

Maybe I'm channeling different authors for different stories?

It would appear that for each story, I write like a different author.

Maybe I'll go down the list of my stories and see which author I was channeling while writing it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It's interesting because, I can kinda see - maybe - how the programming is generating its results. It doesn't work on meaning or implied meaning - just style of words and 'chronistic'(?) verbs and nouns.

Shame the thing doesn't say whether it thinks you are a 'good' or a 'bad' writer!

I think I am TOTALLY different in personality to the writers the thing threw up 4 me:

Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, and David Foster Wallace.

I would take those guys - but I'm not anything like any of them as a person in RL. And I don't think I write the same kinds of themes that they do at all.

I did some checking, and writing samples are compared to distinctive stats for particular writers....mostly ingredients and arrangement and word counts and sentence length, etc.

 

[Handley_Page]

I write like myself.

so did I, until I took two bits from different work for this analysis.
It seems that I write like Edgar Allan Poe or Ian Fleming.

That's quite a worrying thought.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I pasted in bits from all four of my stories here and got four different results:

Arthur Clarke - well, I grew up with his work, but I'm pretty sure he didn't write lesbian romance.

Rudyard Kipling - again, I grew up with Kipling, but I can't remember any lesbian BDSM erotica. I did mention snakes, maybe that has something to do with it?

H.P. Lovecraft - I have to pay this one, that piece was deliberately written as Lovecraftean pastiche, so it did well here.

Dan Brown - well fuck you too, textbot. Maybe because I had a crypt?

 

[lovecraft68]

What the fuck?

Anne Rice?

I should shoot myself now.

 

[lovecraft68]

So Anne Rice was off the opening sequence of my Halloween story

I went back 4 years and pasted in part of the first chapter of SWB and got

David Foster Wallace.

What this tells me is...my writing is going downhill

 

[glynndah]

Anne Rice and Chuck Palahniuk, for the most part, but the one I like most is L. Frank Baum.

 

[patientlee]

Through some snooping I found out that this means you are Stephen King. Hello Mr King.

That would have to be some creative snooping. Even if I did write like him, I'm definitely not a Mr.

 

[lovecraft68]

That would have to be some creative snooping. Even if I did write like him, I'm definitely not a Mr.

I'd rather be his kid "Joe Hill" writes a mean comic!

Locke and Key took off well before people knew who he was. Then when it was slipped who he was?

Let's just say my wife ate her words when she bitched me out for telling people I was sold out of number one's when I was hording a dozen of them.

 

[Swilly]

One story: David Foster Wallace

Another: James Joyce

My Camp nano book: Mark Twain

I got a Rudyard Kipling too

My collaboration with Ellie: Stephen King

That's a hell of a mix