Who do you write like? Paste your prose/poetry:

[CTyankee]

http://iwl.me/

Analysis of two different things I wrote (one in a critique I was asked to give opinions on and the other from a short story I had written, but never submitted for publishing).

My analysis said my style was, respectively, like David Foster Wallace and H.P. Lovecraft. Uh...

I am not a writer. This is just a kind of fun tool.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Douglas Adams - that was surprising. nt

[snpsmom]

2. I am a writer

and I guess this is fun. No matter what I plugged in, a different writer came up. Perhaps I simply write like myself.

[MineralMan]

3. I tried it twice, using two longish posts from DU.

The first came back as "I write like William Shakespeare."
The second produced "I write like Cory Doctorow."

Interesting...

[CTyankee]

6. makes you wonder with results like that...

I know nothing of Lovecraft, except that I googled and found out he wrote weird horror and inspired Stephen King. I don't even like that stuff and have read only one King novel.

Go figure...

[MineralMan]

9. I'm pretty sure it's just a random result.

I tried it a few more times, and got different results. I even put in something I deliberately wrote in the style of Shakespeare. It came back as being written like a modern author I'm not familiar with.

It's a gimmick being used to sell what they're selling.

[MOTRDemocrat]

4. Put in some poetry of mine. Got William Gibson twice, Stephen King once.

Nice find, OP.

[CTyankee]

5. Hat tip to my friend April...

[HereSince1628]

7. I got Lovecraft and Wodehouse

One a master of horror and the other a humorist

Of all the permutations possible on that paltry bit of information, I'm interpreting that as being horribly funny.

[Orrex]

12. It's probably due to your extensive use of the word "gibbous"

[Tikki]

8. Stephen King...

Tikki

[pipi_k]

22. Yah...

me too.

Which wasn't a big surprise, really.

[Tikki]

27. Me either....I live, breathe and sleep Sci-fi, fantasy and mystery.....

and horror, to some extent, so I bet I speak and write it a bit, too.


Tikki

[LiberalEsto]

10. Cory Doctorow (twice), David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce and Lewis Carroll

I decided to post six pieces of prose and poems to see what would happen.

If I supposedly write like the above-mentioned authors, why couldn't I get an agent to even take a look at a children's book I wrote some years ago?

[KarenS]

11. Interesting,,,,

I used 2 poems I had written during a difficult time,,,,

Mary Shelley
Stephen King

[panader0]

13. Vladimir Nabokov

wow

[Brainstormy]

15. Color me jealous!

and yeah. Wow.

[Brainstormy]

14. Hillarious!

I got Daniel Defoe and Ernest Hemingway. Fascinating software. Can't imagine the relationships, phrases, structures, etc., it looks for. But I am a writer and I can tell you that if my readers and past editors knew I'd been compared to Hemingway, they'd double over laughing. Defoe, maybe. (My husband says I'm "stuffy.&quot But Hemingway? Ha!

At any rate, thanks for the link. Very entertaining. I'll try to refrain from running the experiment ten more times.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Edgar Allan Poe.

Funny - it was a section of a legal brief.

[Solly Mack]

17. George Orwell

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. HP Lovecraft n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

19. Cheers!

I entered the following by Yeats - "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

Software indicates the writing style is H.P. Lovecraft.

"“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”

The above passage is a style (idiosyncratic) famously used by James Joyce in Finnegan's Wake and the software offered the style is that of David Wallace.



In short, the software is bunk.

[MattBaggins]

20. George R R Martin writes like James Joyce.

Go figure.

[LWolf]

21. HP Lovecraft,

whom I've never read.

I don't think I write like anybody, but if I were to answer the question myself, and not submit text for analysis, I would have said that I'm Faulkner, rather than Hemingway.

[TheManInTheMac]

23. David Foster Wallace. No shit; he's my sig line.

[Zorra]

24. Kurt Vonnegut. Oh, yeah, wow, that is so me.

Who do I send the flowers to for saying such nice things about my writing?

[Xipe Totec]

25. Apparently, Harlan Ellison writes like George Orwell

I put in some Ellison in:

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult."

And it said I write like Orwell:

I put some Orwell in:

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

And it said I wrote like Edgar Allan Poe.

I put some Edgar Allan Poe in:

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

And it said I write like Isaac Asimov

[frogmarch]

26. Jack London!

Wow, I'm good! :-D

Thanks for the link. What fun!

[Katashi_itto]

28. Stephen King after Mainlining Lovecraft.

The script I co-wrote and am in the process of co-directing the movie, is being compared described that way. However the proof is in the pudding. It could be total dreck when we finish the movie.

[UTUSN]

29. the Who Do You Know to Violate SoP at Will forum?!1 n/t

[kentuck]

30. Longfellow

I'm a poet
And didn't know it
But my feet show it
They're long fellows...

[zeeland]

31. Mario Puzo...he would be sadly amused.

[zaireeka]

32. Fascinating

I write like 404 Not Found...has anyone read any of her stuff?