Over the years I have aspired to write like William Stringfellow and / or Hunter S. Thompson. It turns out I do neither. A little program called "I write like..." suggests first that I write like Vladimir Nabokov, then later like Dan Brown and (using one poem as a basis) James Joyce. It's all hokum, of course, but fun. Try it yourself. Here is my badge. I've always wanted a badge.
(Thanks to Fr. Micky for the lead on this.)
I write like
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Thanks for the tip. Seems I write like J K Rowling. Or Cory Doctorow. Depending on the passage analyzed. As both passages were from the same post .....?
ReplyDeleteI came out James Joyce but I have no idea how to get my badge onto my blog. Ah well...
ReplyDeleteAccording to "test," I write like Dan Brown. I find that rather interesting.
ReplyDeleteFrom other people's comments, it would seem that a lot of people write like Dan Brown. You write like you.
ReplyDeleteTried a couple of different passages. I'm either Arthur C. Clarke or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Guess the big difference was the references to "interstellar space" or "mystery".
ReplyDeleteI got several analyses that I wrote like David Foster Wallace (whoever he is), two Dan Browns, a James Joyce and a Jane Austen.
ReplyDeleteMine was H. P. Lovecraft. Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." I don't know what this says about my family, as the sample was a couple of paragraphs of an article about an ancestress, Abigail Roberts (1715-1760).
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