I take this as a heavy-duty compliment

[rikibeth]

I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

That's based on a long journal entry. Putting the romantiporn stories into it gets Chuck Pahlaniuk, for some reason, which strikes me as highly unlikely.

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I was so disappointed. I do not want to be the leader of crazy people.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

I have tried this with three entries and have received Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Brown, and James Joyce. I have, therefore, concluded that this is a random author generator. ;)

Eh..

[sapphorlando.livejournal.com]

I decided to give it a run with a bunch of writing samples -- fifteen samples from eight different original works I've done, most of it over the last eight years.

Results:

6 X Stephen King
3 X Chuck Palahniuk
2 X Dan Brown
2 X James Fenimore Cooper
1 X Margaret Atwood (Also came up for one brief excerpt I didn't count.)
1 X Vladimir Nabokov
1 X James Joyce

As near as I can determine:
- If you use short descriptive sentences, rather spare in style, it kicks back King.
- If you use profanity mixed with violence, or lots of convo, you get Palaniuk. (Although one return was entirely narrative, in documentary style, with none of either.)
- Anything vaguely scientific-sounding kicks back Brown. (I do not consider this a compliment.)
- Both returns on Atwood were from women being introspective.
- Cooper came back from a very chatty, very awkward (but rather sweet) sex scene.
- As best I can tell, Nabokov was flagged from a very small amount of Russian.
- It's hard to tell what tripped the Joyce flag. It was a lengthy, first-person narrative mostly about zombies.

It's a fun tool to play with, and certainly piques one's curiosity, but it doesn't seem to me that it represents very much beyond a few simple flags.

Re: Eh..

[sapphorlando.livejournal.com]

Er, sixteen samples I guess. I didn't keep the notes, so I'm not sure.

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

That IS cool. Guess I should try this out.

[ihadtimetokill.livejournal.com]

okay. so with one (loooong) recent lj post, i got stephen king. with a short story-thing i wrote last year (about something that actually happened, though) i got hemingway. which i am assuming is because sometimes i do very much adopt a straight-forward, short-sentence style? i know my style changes, but i also know i am distinctive (i have been told this). in conclusion, memes like this confuse me slightly, but are still oddly interesting.