I Write Like

[Mashira]

I don't know if any of you have heard of this, but I thought it was pretty interesting. FF was reading an article on CNN and came across this. It is a generator that you put 1-2 paragraphs of your own writing in, and it tells you what author your writing reflects!


The link:

http://iwl.me/

I write like H.P. Lovecraft! This result was based on a diary entry. When I put in a paper that I wrote for school I got James Joyce.

 

[Upgradable]

I'm getting a combination of Margaret Atwood and Dan Brown, with a random Edgar Allen Poe thrown in once!

 

[sctsbride09]

Neat find, Mashira. I got Vladimir Nabokov.

 

[yssie]

Cool! I write like JD Salinger apparently, and catcher is one of my favourite books

 

[Grlsbestfrnd]

I got David Foster Wallace the author of Infinite Jest. I used a paper I wrote for class.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Very interesting. Here's my statistical sampling

Couple paragraphs from senior thesis on Spenser's Faerie Queene - Dan Brown

Couple paragraphs from a long paper from undergrad on Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady - James Joyce

A post from a blog I started the summer before law school - David Foster Wallace

Couple paragraphs from my Philosophy senior paper on metaphysics and time - David Foster Wallace

Couple paragraphs from my substantial paper on BRIC nations and economics for law school - David Foster Wallace

Ding ding ding - I think we have a winner.

I'm not sure how to feel considering this is what Wiki says about his writing style:

"Wallace's fiction is often concerned with irony. His essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction",[28] originally published in the small-circulation Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1993, proposes that television has an ironic influence on fiction writing, and urges literary authors to eschew irony. Wallace used many forms of irony, focusing on individuals' continued longing for earnest, unself-conscious experience, and communication in a media-saturated society.[29]

Wallace's novels often combine various writing modes or voices, and incorporate jargon and vocabulary (sometimes invented) from a wide variety of fields. His writing featured self-generated abbreviations and acronyms, long multi-clause sentences, and a notable use of explanatory footnotes and endnotes—often nearly as expansive as the text proper. He used endnotes extensively in Infinite Jest and footnotes in "Octet" as well as in the great majority of his nonfiction after 1996. On the Charlie Rose show in 1997, Wallace claimed that the notes were used to disrupt the linearity of the narrative, to reflect his perception of reality without jumbling the entire structure. He suggested that he could have instead jumbled up the sentences, "but then no one would read it."[30]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Writing_and_other_media

 

[kittybean]

Hmm . . . I put in a bunch of different samples, and ended up with a bunch of different writers. The one that came up most (three times) was H.P. Lovecraft. All of the Lovecraft results came from law school seminar papers. I also got Isaac Asimov, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Foster Wallace based on various other papers I wrote in undergrad or law school. The text of an investigation request for work gave me Cory Doctorow. I didn't input any of my informal writing, so perhaps that would return even more varied results. I think this may mean I don't really have a finite or distinguishable writing style.

 

[beezygal]

I got Stephen King!

 

[Mashira]

My FF got Stephen King

 

[MissMina]

Who is Margaret Atwood?
OK I just read about her
We couldn't be less alike.

 

[Autumnovember]

Wow, that is really cool!

I put in an excerpt from a blog that I write and a story I was telling.


I got Stephen King!