I write like......

[snoseek]

http://iwl.me/

Copy a few paragraphs and it will analyze your writing style and match it to a famous author.

I copied and pasted several times. Most stuff was David Foster Wallace. The more creative stuff came up as James Joyce.

Try it

Post results

 

[riverc0il]

Stephen King and Ursula K. Le Guin

???

 

[skijay]

I was David Foster Wallace.

 

[bvibert]

I pasted in a MTB TR and it said I write like Dan Brown.

 

[Puck it]

Bram Stoker. I would like to see the code and how it determines this.

 

[ctenidae]

Cory Doctorow.
Who?

 

[Warp Daddy]

Ian Fleming -- 007

 

[snowmonster]

Cory Doctorow. I used a TR and a Facebook post.

 

[bvibert]

Cory Doctorow.
Who?

I got that for another one of my TRs...

 

[marcski]

I was David Foster Wallace.

+1

 

[dmc]

Ernest Hemingway

 

[Mapnut]

Suppose you aren't good enough to resemble any famous author?

Maybe it would match you to a famous blogger?

(Congratulations to all the above, by the way, even bvibert.)

I got either Wallace or Steven King, from different sections of the same story.

 

[Geoff]

Says Cory Doctorow but I think I'm closer to Doctor Seuss

 

[severine]

Cory Doctorow.
Who?

My same reaction when I got that. I took an excerpt of 3 paragraphs following and got James Joyce.

 

[wa-loaf]

James Fenimore Cooper (Last of the Mohicans)

 

[WakeboardMom]

Suppose you aren't good enough to resemble any famous author?

Maybe it would match you to a famous blogger?

(Congratulations to all the above, by the way, even bvibert.)

I got either Wallace or Steven King, from different sections of the same story.

Me, too. Three authors; all using separate sections from the same document. All were authors of whom I'm not particularly fond. I would've been happier with Dr. Seuss.

Also...I was surprised to see how many of my "friends" posted this on FB.

 

[wa-loaf]

Got James Joyce when I pasted in a Christmas letter I wrote. The previous result was from a ski trip report ...

 

[Trekchick]

I wonder who they say Jon Clinch writes like?

 

[ctenidae]

I wonder who they say Jon Clinch writes like?

Not surprisingly, Mark Twain, using the exerpts from here

B&N's exerpt gets Wendy a "Stephen King"

 

[Glenn]

Eric Brownsville.

Wow...beloved!