So, who do I write like?

[puckrobin]

I was playing around with the I Write Like Analyzer to get some cheap, easy and highly suspect validation.



So, looking at a few paragraphs of my recently-revised and less written-like-a-retarded-six-year old "Personal Journey" http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robjour/rhjour.html, I found:

I write like
Cory Doctorow

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

And section of the now-discarded early version appeared as if it was written by:

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

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

I assume this means I've become less scary and just more Canadian. (No, I'm not going to link to the earlier version, but I'm sure it's easy to find.)

For comparison, I looked at my recent review of the 1969 film Wolfshead.

http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robspot/wolfshead.html

A short selection suggested I wrote like Ursula K. LeGuin. A longer one returned the result of James Joyce. But a much longer selection brought this result:

I write like
William Shakespeare

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

"Worship me, fools! Worship me!"


Allen

Comments

[puckrobin.livejournal.com]

That is highly insulting and untrue.

I tried out the prologue of The Da Vinci Code and it said that Dan Brown writes like Dan Brown.

On the other hand, the Shakespeare who wrote Hamlet's "o what a rogue and peasant slave" soliloquy and also Edmund's "excellent foppery of the world" soliloquy from King Lear is apparently James Joyce. Which is an interesting addition to that "authorship controversy".