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I'm getting back James Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft, and Oscar Wilde. Of course, it depends on what I paste into the box, but uhhh...really?

Eric's made me lawl. He writes (or did) like Rowling. He put in the first few chapters of CAMP and got that back.

The idea of a Neuromancer style version of Roadtrip is......rather fun actually!

While I am under no illusion that this thing is implying that I/we are "as good as" the writers it says we write like, what I find somewhat distressing is how much my writing style apparently bounces around.  I would expect a little variation, and different books certainly could be written in different styles...

But I put each chapter of Dragonseekers through this little tool, and for 20 chapters, I got 14 different names!  And no two consecutive chapters were the same name.  :-S

Now, I know, or think I know, roughly how this tool works.  It uses word choice, sentence length, paragraph length, and other such statistics, and compares yours to those of the famous authors used...  So I don't see why my writing should bounce so much.

Now, some stories are remarkably consistent.  CAMP: Ron's Journey is a J.K. Rowling-style book, with only 5 out of 35 chapters giving a different name.  Warmth of a Touch was mostly James Joyce... though somehow Bill Shakespeare got thrown in there once...   PAO was 50% Vladimir Nabokov, and Illicit Reunions was 5/8 Jane Austen.  My other stories, though, are all over the place.

Like I said, who it says I write like is amusing, but irrelevant to me (though if it's right about CRJ, it would explain a lot about its popularity)... but I wonder why I don't get more consistent results.

Eric Storm

telgar wrote:

Margret Wood when my fathless story was analised, and Dan Brown with To whom it May Concern. Have no clue who either one was.

Not sure about Margret Wood but Dan Brown wrote "The Da Vinci Code" didn't he?

well i tried it with a few of my stories and got a bunch of different answers

I write like
Stephen King
I write like
Annie Rice
I write like
Stephenie Meyer
I write like
Cory Doctorow
I write like
Gertrude Stein

Fun to play with. 

I used opening chapters from stuff on the net and snippets in my dead files.  I got several random hits but Chuck Palahniuk and David Foster Wallace came back on a couple each: Palahniuk wrote 'Fight Club' while Wallace wrote 'Infinite Jest' genre "Post Modern Hysterical Realism" so I guess that fits. Otherwise I tagged Asimov, Fleming, Rowling, Le Guin, Twain and King...

Now if was only true of course