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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Who Do You Write Like?
Terry Lynn Johnson provided a fun time-waster over on her blog today. It's an "analyzer" that scans a piece of your prose and tells you who you write like. I put in several chapters and a short story. Two were pronounced to be in the style of David Foster Wallace; two like William Gibson, and my current WIP is James Joyce. Kind of high fallutent for chick lit, I'd say. If you want to play, here's the link http://iwl.me/.
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I put up my murder story and I got William Shakespeare. Who knew he was a baseball beat writer with a really bad penchant for swearing? ;)
I just saw the Rejectionist has this up on her site, too. People are finding out all sorts of interesting things, like that James Joyce was really William Shakespeare. Congrats, Andrea on channeling the Bard hisownself. I mostly seem to be channeling David Foster Wallace. I don't know what that says about my mental health.
It's funny for chick lit because all but three of the authors in the meme are men! 100% of them are white. It should be "what old white guy does your writing most resemble?"
Glad you had some fun with this! It must just look for certain words, not "style" exactly. But good clean time-wasting fun.
I did it too for different genres and both were James Joyce. My man's POV was Margaret Atwood and my women's fiction was Stephen King. I beg your pardon. It was a fun laugh.
Piedmont, I love the gender role reversal there. I've posted two short fiction pieces (both YA) on a separate page of this blog and decided to test them: Vive La Revolution is David Foster Wallace and The Big Ones is Margaret Atwood. Nice we're all in such august company.
How funny; I did this over at Olivia Herrell's and came up with David Foster Wallace for my novel too. I like the analysis so much after researching him I wrote a post about the author, but didn't publish it til tonight.
Its so cool we have the same write-like author in common. Now I'm doubly pleased with myself.
.......dhole
I am the Aussie white female version of Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft. Horror, macabre, fantasy. Yep, I am so proud - hehehehe.
One of my short stories was apparently written in the style of Mary Shelly; another imitates Arthur Conan Doyle (because it's a mystery?) When I tried chapters of novels, I got David Foster Wallace (whose work I have never read) TWICE - and Douglas Adams on another chapter of the same novel, then Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke...
Apparently, I write like David Foster Wallace. Must go read some David Foster Wallace!
Jan, Donna, Anon: I'm beginning to think this may be a conspiracy by the estate of David Foster Wallace to get people to read his ultra-literary tomes.
Thanks for the link Anne - I've set up a post on my blog (referring to yours) as it's all rather good fun. For the record, I got, J. K. Rowling, H. G. Wells and Douglas Adams. Quite happy with that!
Mine was Valdimere something or other...Not a picture book writer???
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