I went to the following site where one can paste a portion of their current project into the analysis engine and find out which famous author is most similar to one’s personal style. Here are the results:
Understand that my current novel is written so that each chapter is a different voice speaking. I chose three characters from the novel to analyze, and found out that one of them reads as if Stephen King wrote it, another chapter looks like Chuck Palahniuk‘s work (Fight Club) and another chapter looks like Isaac Asimov. Weird, huh? I suppose I have something for everyone in my latest offering.
My first book, The Transgression Box, (according to the analyzer) reads like a Neil Gaiman novel.
I wonder which famous author each of you write like? Paste in some text and find out. You may find a new audience.
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Wow. My current project is reading like Gertrude Stein. I’m embarrassed to say she is one author I have not read yet. I wonder what exactly that means.
I also plugged in a short story I had written a few months ago and got Vladimir Nabokov. At least I have read something of his.
Thank you Roger, this is a great one. At first, texting my writing from the translator (i only write in spanish), i got Dan Brown, wich makes me a little dissapointed (is not the type of literature i want to make). Then i try to be more objetive in the translation and got Conan Doyle, Foster Wallace and Arthur Clarke wich makes me feel better even i know this is not specefic.
Hmm… I got a “William Gibson” on six different pieces of my work. Thanks for da link:)
hmm, J.D.Salinger, Corey Doctorow, David Foster Wallace…
This was certainly fun and amusing. However, it also caused me to wonder if I have yet developed my own style: I plugged in sections of the first chapter and each section resembled a different author. Starting out like Dan Brown and continuing on like Stephen King, Nabokov, James Fenimore Cooper, etc is not at all shabby, but is it an indication of having achieved my own unique style or am I a conglomerate of all that I have read? Food for thought!
This is wonderful! Just did the test myself…apparently I write like Mario Puzo. Cool, except the piece i used as test was one I’d styled to match Alistair Cooke. Must see who else I write like… 🙂
interesting read, Julie xox
Loved this! Already wrote a post about the site (kudos to Julie for asking permission first, my bad for just forging ahead without any manners). Thanks for writing about this.
Sorry, I wrote about it on my secondary blog, not my main blog … http://mindfulmonica.wordpress.com/
I tried this already using my WIP = Neil Gaiman and two short stories = James Joyce and Chuck Palahnuik Have no idea where they got the Joyce on from on the piece I used but hell its flattering so I will happily accept it
Joyce’s work is stream of consciousness. Much of my more choppy, “thought process” chapters were like Joyce.
personally i prefer reading Woolf to Joyce but that could be because I had to study Ulyssess for Uni
Uuuughh. Ulysses. I prefer “Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man”.
Oh my goodness, Roger, this was so much fun! I entered several pieces of a wide cross-section of my poetry … and while 3 authors came up repeatedly, the overwhelming number came up with James Joyce! How cool is that? The other two which were practically tied in number were Vladimir Nabokov and Anne Rice.
I’d love to create a similar post for my blog with the “Who Do You Write Like” link – it would be a lot of fun for my readers to try out …. would that be all right? Would you mind? (I would post a link back here to your site as well and give you credit.)
What a great way to start my day and week! Loved this! ~ Julie 🙂
Go ahead. I think the more writers who read this the more writers will be encouraged…or at least amused. Thanks for the mention ahead of time!