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I just pasted a couple of paragraphs of the first chapter in my next western novel (short story? haven't figured it out yet) into one of those "I write like" websites and came up with James Fenimore Cooper. Tried another couple of paragraphs and came up with Cooper again. Pasted the whole chapter in and guess what? Cooper once more.
Man! I consider Cooper to be the most boring writer I have ever read in my life (if you don't count Tolkein) and haven't read anything by him since college many years ago. He took the western and turned it into the first cure for insomnia.
Am I channeling his dead (and boring) spirit as punishment for some past literary transgression? Or could it be that I really suck that bad? Lol. I would rather re-write the whole chapter (only one I have completed yet) and try a different style than be pegged as the next Cooper.
Most everybody has tried one of these websites at one time. Did you ever come out compared to a writer you absolutely hated? (This is written mostly tongue in cheek. I don't really feel these things are accurate by any means.)
Man! I consider Cooper to be the most boring writer I have ever read in my life (if you don't count Tolkein) and haven't read anything by him since college many years ago. He took the western and turned it into the first cure for insomnia.
Am I channeling his dead (and boring) spirit as punishment for some past literary transgression? Or could it be that I really suck that bad? Lol. I would rather re-write the whole chapter (only one I have completed yet) and try a different style than be pegged as the next Cooper.
Most everybody has tried one of these websites at one time. Did you ever come out compared to a writer you absolutely hated? (This is written mostly tongue in cheek. I don't really feel these things are accurate by any means.)