Wednesday 14 July 2010

I Write Like...

Check what famous writer you write like with this tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers.

Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs.

It seems I write like H.P. Lovecraft. Cool!

6 comment(s):

Betsy said...

Me too, me too! Whoehahahaha ereybody Lovecraft?

Anonymous said...

I find it changes depending on the sample. I used two of my blog posts; one came back as Dan Brown, the other as Stephen King.

Do with it what you will.

Simon said...

I'm with Claude. In one chapter of a single manuscript, I came across as Dan Brown, Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, and Vladimir Nabokov. Not that I mind, it was just weird.

Namowal (Jennifer Bourne) said...

I got results similar to Simon's. While much of my blog returned "Stephen King," I also got "Vladamir Nabokov" and "Raymound Chandler," and sometimes "Dan Brown"

That being said, I pasted a few paragraphs of "Treasure Island" into it, and it correctly identified it as Robert Louis Stevenson.

Anonymous said...

When I pasted in sections of a book of mine published in 2002 and a recently finished but not yet released book it came up with David Foster Wallace, who interestingly also suffered from depression, though his was innate. (Whereas mine is exogenous.)

Shocker: when I paste in the first paragraph above or this paragraph, they too come out as David Foster Wallace, so I guess that there may really be something to it, that it is at least not just picking an author's name at random!

Maybe I should give up my day job!

Hel Stone said...

Cool tool. Need to try it out! I also recommend you this one.