I Write Like

[JEBWrench]

Thanks to Joe Posnanski's blog, I found a link to a rather interesting little application that uses statistical analysis on word choice and writing style to find out which famous writer one most writes similar to. For kicks, I ran some Escapist editors through it. (If I had something of my own of a few paragraphs to write, I'd run myself too.)

John Funk writes like Dan Brown.
Yahtzee writes like Cory Doctorow.
Shamus also writes like Dan Brown.
Andy Chalk writes like Cory Doctorow as well.
Steve Butts scores Doctorow.
Lauren Admire writes like: H.P. Lovecraft.
Susan Arendt gets Arthur C. Clarke.
Alexander Macris is most like David Foster Wallace.
And Russ Pitts is channeling: Cory Doctorow.

There you have it. A pointless exercise in pointlessness. And for a little bit more fun, I'm going to run this very post through this now.

Cory Doctorow! Is that a fancy way of saying I talk too much on the internet?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I ran a short piece of creative writing I did through it.
Apparently I write like William Shakespeare >.>
You should have heard what was going on in IRC for that site. Someone kept copy & pasting the same word over and over, can't remember who it said they wrote like, though...

 

[Nimzar]

Here is the link: http://www.iwl.me/

I write like Isaac Asimov, when writing on these message boards.

I write like Cory Doctorow, when writing for English profs.

I write like James Joyce, when writing a scientific research paper.

I write like J.K. Rowling, when writing short fiction.

Um... neat.

 

[no oneder]

*sigh* I don't write.

*sigh*

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

Nice. I entered a History essay I did a while back. Turns out I write like H.P. Lovecraft.

This thing is clearly broken.

 

[tharglet]

I write like [http://www.iwl.me/]

I did it for two of my forum posts - different results and I didn't recognise the author names

Edit:
Apparently the paragraph above the box is like "Cory Doctorow". Another author I am unfamiliar with lol.

 

[Betancore]

I got Cory Doctorow four times. And I think I got Dan Brown, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ian Fleming and Stephen King as well. And Stephenie Meyer. Sadly. I put a few things through that I'd written. Most of my wall of text forum posts got Cory Doctorow. Pretty interesting to compare Escapist writers to some of those authors.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I gave it an essay I wrote for English class, and apparantly I write like Ursular K. Le Guin, whoever that is.

*sigh* I don't write.

*sigh*

I gave it some of your forum posts and apparantly you write like Oscar Wilde.

Spoiler: This guy

 

[hazabaza1]

Using my post for the Medal of Honour beta, I apparently write like Stephen King. Neato.

 

[Jim Grim]

Cory Doctorow. It really likes telling people that they write like Cory Doctorow, doesn't it?

 

[Phantomess]

Rofl, I write like J.K Rowling! SCORE!


I write likeAnalyze your writing! [http://iwl.me/w/32618206]




Now to write a best-selling series about an angst-ridden boy wizard! Hurrah!

EDIT: Just killing myself laughing now. The Vamp Next Door is apparently written in the style of Dan Brown while Split Existence is reminiscent of H.P Lovecraft. Nice to know that a story about a MMO dragon has the potential to live up to Lovecraft.

 

[Marter]

I put in one of my reviews.

Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow.

No idea who that is though. To Wikipedia!

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

My reviews are like Lovecraft, my essays are Rowling-esque and my stories are like William Gibson.[footnote]The sampled extracts were: A Story; Magic Users [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.166399-Oblivious-Presents-Mages-Wizards-and-General-Magic-Users#4415312](Essay) and Master of Puppets(Review)[/footnote]
Not too happy about the middle one, but since I only really do them for school at least they're accessible.

I'm going to put all my serious writing pieces in as general forum posts are written like wot I talk innit?

 

[SniperWolf427]

I write like Cory Doctorow I suppose.

Does that make me the next Yahtzee!?

 

[milna64]

The source file for this page is written like Dan Brown, apparently.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I submitted five pieces of very similar writing (five short stories), and I write like Stephan King, William Shakespeare, and R.A. Salvatore :|

 

[Vhite]

I write like William Shakespeare when he was 9.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

I apparently right like William Gibson
-looks up who that is-
Thats not as bad as I thought it would be

 

[Tehlanna TPX]

I apparently write like James Joyce. Nifty little thing