Who do you write like?
DON’T EVEN THINK OF CLICKING ON THE LINK IF YOU’RE ON A DEADLINE. I Write Like is a statistical analysis tool from Coding Robots. It compares your writing style with the writing styles of famous writers, then tells you which writer you sound like. The options include Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse.
Warning: The program may decide that your write-alike is Dan Brown. Can your ego survive that?
Thanks to Otsu for the alert.
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P.S. This is a time-waster, a game, not to be taken seriously. Repeat, do not take seriously. Flattering to be told that you write like Nabokov, but you are not and will never be Nabokov. On the other hand if it calls you Dan Brownish, time to worry.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
July 21st, 2010 at 00:30
In related news, never-say-die Sarah Palin is now channeling Shakespeare.
http: //www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/classified-odd/07/19/10/sarah-palin-refudiates-critics
July 21st, 2010 at 03:30
I got David Foster Wallace. Is that good or bad?
July 21st, 2010 at 05:44
I apparently write like Joyce. I’ve never even read him. LOL.
July 21st, 2010 at 06:10
Wow, I love this program. I’m Margaret Atwood? Seriously? Feel my Canadian Fury!
July 21st, 2010 at 08:14
yes, apparently, i DO write like dan brown.
July 21st, 2010 at 08:42
Analyzing my writing from my younger, angrier days yielded Edgar Allan Poe.
My more recent and happier years yielded Cory Doctorow.
A terribly vain and me-centric post yielded Dan Brown. Ack.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:59
A devious plot lurks beneath…
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012497.html
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012502.html#012502
July 21st, 2010 at 12:18
Dan Brown? That’s not so bad…I got Stephenie Meyer!!! Excuse me while I go kill myself….
July 21st, 2010 at 13:03
Then you should write LOLITO!
July 21st, 2010 at 13:03
Cory Doctorow is also there
July 21st, 2010 at 14:02
Got lots of James Joyce, though i haven’t read any of his books. lol
Few of Cory Doctorow, Margaret Atwood, and Stephen King.
And the most terrible of all, I got one Dan Brown! haha.
July 21st, 2010 at 15:18
I got James Joyce.
July 21st, 2010 at 16:53
I write like Cory Doctorow and Margaret Atwood. Googling them…
July 21st, 2010 at 20:12
I got H. P. Lovecraft and Cory Doctorow. I guess Sci-fi is indeed my thing.
July 21st, 2010 at 21:08
I was hoping to get Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Chuck Palahniuk but it gave me someone else I didn’t bother to Google.
July 21st, 2010 at 23:12
I write like Chuck Palahniuk and I went “Who?”. I posted the result on my Facebook though and I’m googling him at the moment. I will be definitely be asked who he is. Must do some research. After all he and I allegedly drown in details in our writing.(Note my smugness. I am taking this seriously after all). Must buy a book. Recommendations anyone? Will have my old pretentious crap analyzed as well. Hmmmnnn…
July 21st, 2010 at 23:42
Turns out Chuck Palahniuk has an official website. I’m a fan(I am indirectly saying I am a fan of myself). Got a Dan Brown(Noooooo!!!!), a H.P. Lovecraft, a Kurt Vonnegut, a J.R.R. Tolkien, and another Chuck Palahniuk. This is so much fun! (more gloating). Yes, I know this is just a game and its pathetic that I’m getting a high out of this but for someone like me who is wallowing in mediocrity, I am willing to believe in anything that reinforces my delusions. Thanks for the link.
July 22nd, 2010 at 00:00
I got James Joyce. Hopefully that’s Ulysses Joyce and not Finnegans Wake Joyce.
July 22nd, 2010 at 02:48
I got Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut and a bunch of Cory Doctorows. For someone who I’ve never heard of this Doctorow fellow sure has influenced a lot of us here.
And because I don’t want to be disingenuous since a lot of you already admitted to it, yes I got a Dan Brown too…more than once actually. Damn it, why do you guys have to be so honest?
July 22nd, 2010 at 08:35
funny, i pasted an excerpt of j.k. rowling’s harry potter and the goblet of fire and substituted all the giveaway names with something more pinoy. turns out, she writes like…dan brown.
July 22nd, 2010 at 09:43
@the chronicler of boredom: Well, there’s Fight Club. Invisible Monsters is also good. Can’t comment on more recent books, though. Stopped reading after Choke. :P
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:13
When i put in my blogpost about my Paris trip, it said i wrote like Douglas Adams. My blogpost about LeBron James, however, netted a “I write like David Foster Wallace” result. The lesson: as long as I keep writing about the NBA, I will eventually end up killing myself.
July 22nd, 2010 at 13:11
When I write blog posts, I apparently write like David Foster Wallace. I tried entering three blog entries, same result. But when I write articles, I write like H.P. Lovecraft. Three times, too! Apparently, press releases are the stuff of science fiction.
July 22nd, 2010 at 14:45
I got Stephen King twice, then Cory Doctorow and Gertrude Stein.
But worse, I got Stephenie Meyer, too! WTF?!
July 22nd, 2010 at 21:02
@the chronicler of boredom read Haunted, it’s a collection of short stories with the sole purpose of making you vomit. I’m a fan too.
July 22nd, 2010 at 22:07
@happysadist. Thanks. Saw the movie. Loved it.
@wickedmouth. Thanks. Will also check it out.
Stayed up late last night because of this program. Also got a Stephen King, another Kurt Vonnegut, an Ian Fleming and an Isaac Asimov. I suddenly felt the need to read, read, and read again. Something good came out of this after all.
July 23rd, 2010 at 00:34
Apparently I write like I’m channelling the ghost of DF Wallace but the bot said the same about a random news article from the NY Times. It did get Jane Austen right when given a snippet from Pride & Prejudice.
BTW, anyone here read Syjuco’s Ilustrado yet? It just came out and several libraries here (New York area) have them on their shelves. It’s even out on Audiobook and as an eBook. Hope this is the first of many.
July 23rd, 2010 at 15:57
got chuck palahniuk thrice, after submitting different articles.
i love haunted and invisible monsters. :p
July 28th, 2010 at 14:23
Funny though, I got Stephen King, when the text I pasted was an essay about Mexican immigrants in the United States. Oh well, I read some of King’s books and they’re great books to scare the hell out of you.