I plugged a chunk of my novel-in-progress into this web app that analyzes your sentence structure and word choices, and I got this:
Loved Handmaid’s Tale, but Cat’s Eye left me cold. Tried to read Good Bones and Simple Murders, but I don’t generally like short stories (it was a gift from someone who does like them). Can’t remember what others I’ve read, but I know I’ve at least started one or two more. I’ve always wondered why she’s so popular. My general impression of her is that she’s kind of a “John Irving lite.” But maybe I’ll have to revisit her stuff now that I’m older and wiser and see what the fuss is about. Any recommendations?
Then I plugged in an everyday splendor post and got this:
Now that felt good. If only! Even though he could be a bit pompous and verbose. (Wait a minute… This app is good!)
Then I plugged in a frogblog post and got this:
Oh well. But who doesn’t love some good pulp from time to time?
Let me know who you write like!
I plugged a chunk of my novel-in-progress into this web app that analyzes your sentence structure and word choices, and I got this:
I write like
Margaret Atwood
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Loved Handmaid's Tale, but Cat's Eye left me cold. Tried to read Good Bones and Simple Murders, but I don't generally like short stories (it was a gift from someone who does like them). Can't remember what others I've read, but I know I've at least started one or two more. I've always wondered why she's so popular. My general impression of her is that she's kind of a "John Irving lite." But maybe I'll have to revisit her stuff now that I'm older and wiser and see what the fuss is about. Any recommendations?
Then I plugged in an everyday splendor post and got this:
I write like
Oscar Wilde
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Now that felt good. If only! Even though he could be a bit pompous and verbos
Well, I tried one blog entry – HP Lovecraft. Hmm, I thought, not quite the effect I was aiming for. Never mind, try another – Dan Brown – Oh no, I’m ruined, I thought, I am doomed to become rich from my writing beyond the dreams of avarice. In desperation I tried a chapter from my novel. BINGO – You write like James Joyce, says the wise computer, and who am I to argue!
Hi David.
Having read David Horton and James Joyce and Dan Brown (and H.P. Lovecraft, but not in decades, and since I was blissfully consuming mass quantities of Hawaiian pot during my youthful sci-fi phase I can’t seem to recall thing one about his writing style…), I say the Joyce/Horton assessment is quite accurate.
Somebody plugged in some Nabokov and evidently he writes like Stephen King… https://twitter.com/greatdismal/status/18556316521
I enjoyed the comments on this BoingBoing article “Chances are you write like Dan Brown”: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/15/chances-are-you-writ.html
This was a welcome little diversion. We all need it from time to time! Thanks for playing. :-)