"I write like..."

Dan Brown.

I call shenanigans.

I tried that yesterday and it told me I write like Dan Brown. So I killed myself. This is actually The Ghost of Perks typing right now.

William, do I really write like Dan Brown?

Hmm, from another part of the same WIP I get James Joyce. Not exactly the kind of conflict I was shooting for....

James Joyce. Hmm...might have to dig him back out.

Chuck Palahniuk -- and seriously, it's not the first time I've heard that.

Different section, same WIP-- Chuck Palahniuk. INteresting. I'm afraid to go any further. I might get Charles Schultz next.

So in other words, I write like aadams and stew.

I'll take it.

J.D. Salinger!

Prose (Running Mascara on the Interstate): Stephen King

Poetry (Any Slow Wednesday): Stephen King

Well, that's that.

Devil Ledbetter said:

J.D. Salinger!

Click to expand...

I am Jack's jealousy.

Neat test! I tested 3 sections of the same WIP and I write like Stephen King (2 sections) or Chuck Palahniuk (1 section).

The WIP is a romance novel. *snerk*

fiction: Stephen King

poetry: Douglas Adams

Stephen King for me.

All Robs write alike?

Says I write like a girl

I think mine was Steve King, stockboy at Pik-N-Pay, Norwalk, CT

Prose 1: Kurt Vonnegut
Prose 2: James Joyce

Poetry: James Joyce


(who by a weird coincidence are two of my favourite authors. Or I'm copying)

First chapter of Collinsfort Village:

I write like
Vladimir Nabokov

First chapter of Gulliver Mouse:

I write like
Ray Bradbury


If only . . . if only . . . : s i g h :

Story #1 Stephen King
Story #2 J. R. R. Tolkien
Story #3 Chuck Palahniuk

Okay, I'm calling serious shenanigans/tomfoolery/lack of skillz0rz. Just for the helluvit, I pasted in the first stanza of Robbie Burns' Address to a Haggis.

And it said I write like Robert Louis Stevenson.

The first one put in, I got Chuck Palahniuk.

The second one I put in, I got Stephen King

*prints screen*


Someone said it. I figure I better save the proof.


Hmm...maybe I should send this to the pub that just rejected that story.

To be honest, I think it has a lot to do with word choice than actual writing style. I could, however, be wrong.

One piece I got Stephen King and another one James Joyce. Both of which were prose.

That's funny. The gadget identifies the full text of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" as sounding like Raymond Chandler, though the first five paragraphs of the same are identified as similar to Jane Austen.

And yet there were these results, after feeding the gadgets bits of one of my stories, one paragraph at a time till I reached the end of the first chapter:

1 Charles Dickens.
2 Margaret Atwood
3 Stephen King
4 Stephen King
5 Stephen King
6 Edgar Allan Poe
7 Edgar Allan Poe
8 Edgar Allan Poe
9 Edgar Allan Poe
10 Edgar Allan Poe
11 Edgar Allan Poe
12 Edgar Allan Poe
13 Edgar Allan Poe
14 Edgar Allan Poe
15 Edgar Allan Poe
16 Edgar Allan Poe

Apparently, I sound to this gadget more like Poe than Poe does.

Other of my stories, in their entirety, sound like: James Joyce* (that same one's opening like Kurt Vonnegut); Isaac Asimov; Dan Brown; Douglas Adams; Margaret Atwood*; Stephen King; Vladimir Nabokov; Raymond Chandler; J.D. Salinger; Chuck Palahniuk; H.P. Lovecraft.

* These were most commonly occurring results, and I've read neither.

Does this mean mine is a schizophrenic writing voice, or is the schiz limited to the gadget?

After all that, I'm expecting it to start sympathizing and asking me about my relationship with my father. (Hello, ELIZA?)