I Write Like...

[Brownian Motion]

Have your writing analyzed.

I tried seven different samples and got one Mario Puzo, one Harry Harrison, and five David Foster Wallaces. I've never read anything by Wallace, but now I'm intrigued.

[ghost of miles]

My first two tries: David Foster Wallace and... H.P. Lovecraft?

[kenny weir]

five David Foster Wallaces. I've never read anything by Wallace, but now I'm intrigued.

I wouldn't necessarily see it as a complimet.

Three samples submitted:

I got Kurt Vonnegut once, David Foster Wallace three times.

Ha bloody ha.

[kenny weir]

OK, this is silly ... maybe Wallace is, like, a default position for jazz forum blatherings.

So I'm gonna drop some HP Lovecraft on them.

Result: Mary Shelley

So I'm gonna drop some James Joyce on them.

Result: James Joyce.

So I'm gonna drop some Karl Rove on them.

Result: Stephen King

(No, I didn't make that last one up ...)

Edited July 17, 2010 by kenny weir

[Ken Dryden]

I submitted an April Fool's review and got H. P. Lovecraft.

I'm not reading a lot into this analysis.

I submitted a second one and got Stephen KIng.

Whee....

[kenny weir]

Yeah, my CV got ... HP Lovecraft, who himself got Mary Shelley.

Kenny's job prognosis - very dark and grim. Nightmarish, even ...

[Spontooneous]

For a snippet from me, David Foster Wallace.

So I tried this snippet of Donald Rumsfeld:

As we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don't know

We don't know.

The result: Stepehenie Meyer.

[Brownian Motion]

For a snippet from me, David Foster Wallace.

So I tried this snippet of Donald Rumsfeld:

As we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don't know

We don't know.

The result: Stepehenie Meyer.

[mikelz777]

I'd be curious as to what is actually analyzed. I submitted 5 different samples (none of them fiction) of my writing and got:

-(2) David Foster Wallace

-H.P. Lovecraft

-Isaac Asimov

-Dan Brown

Edited July 17, 2010 by mikelz777

[GA Russell]

I got David Foster Wallace too.

I've never heard of him before.

[JSngry]

This one setnece of spontaneous blather:

Mine eyes have heard the gory of the dumbing of the chord - his ruthlessness is smashing on and on and on.

Means I write like Margaret Mitchell!!!!

[AndrewHill]

James Fenimore Cooper.

[7/4]

I grabbed one of my old reviews from Juxtaposition Ezine (no longer on line) and I write like...I write like:

William Shakespeare!

[A Lark Ascending]

I got Geoffrey Chaucer.

[brownie]

James Joyce

[Bright Moments]

also James Joyce!

[A Lark Ascending]

Now I got 'The chap who wrote the Bible'.

Not sure if that meant the one who dreamed it all up or King James I.

[Jazzmoose]

All I get is David Foster Wallace, which apparently means I write just like everyone else on the planet...

[Shawn]

All I get is David Foster Wallace, which apparently means I write just like everyone else on the planet...

Me too.

[kinuta]

I entered -

"Verily I sayeth unto thee, thou shalt take thyself to Diane Keaton's Academy, there to dwelleth in perpetuity "

which comes out as David Foster Wallace.

Eenie, meenie miney moe equals Margaret Atwood.

Houston we have a problem.

Edited July 17, 2010 by kinuta

[JSngry]

Oliver Nelson.

Yeah, I wish.

[Bright Moments]

i put in "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and got Arthur C. Clarke.

I also put in Ogden Nash's:

I never saw a purple cow

I never hope to see one

But I could tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one

and got Lewis Carroll!

and Nash's:

Candy is dandy

But Liquor is quicker

gets J.D. Salinger!

Edited July 17, 2010 by Bright Moments

[AllenLowe]

mine came up as:

Larry Kart.

[Swinging Swede]

I pasted a news item text in Swedish and pressed Analyze. Result: David Foster Wallace

[Dave James]

Another David Foster Wallace clone here. Not sure what this means. It seems a bit odd that so many Organissimo poster's styles would match up with just one writer. Makes you wonder how big the data base is they're using to perform the analysis.