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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 9, 2010 23:31:02 GMT 1
I was just turned on to this program by a friend on another board: iwl.me/You paste a few paragraphs of your writing into the box, then it analyzes your writing style and compares it to a bunch of famous writers. I put in a post from a forum I RP as Revan on, and apparently, I write like... Dan Brown! (I'm not sure how accurate this thing is, there were no murderous albinos or ass kicking Harvard professors in my post. ;D) So give it a whirl if you want! I'm looking forward to seeing who you all get!
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Post by Battlechantress on Sept 9, 2010 23:37:47 GMT 1
Whoa... after plunking in the opening paragraphs of "Bad Night in Flux", their analyzer said I write like... Jonathan Swift?!
So then I plunked a few paragraphs at random from another chapter, and it said I write like Dan Brown. (I chose a lot of dialogue to submit for that round and that might be why.)
Oh, but THIS was the frigging kicker. I put in a few paragraphs from the second chapter of "Me, Myself and Doubt" and it said that I write like... Douglas Adams?! WTF? "Bad Night" was more like Adams than Swift! "Me, Myself..." was me needing frigging Xanax.
So uh... yeah, I think that analyzer is a tad skewed.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 9, 2010 23:58:16 GMT 1
My first one - one of my ME fanfics - says I write like Arthur C Clarke. I think maybe they just caught the space references...
I put in a brief relationship bit from my Star Wars fic and then I got... Gertrude Stein. I dunno who that is.
Finally I put in a short ghost story I did this year... and I got Chuck Palahniuk. I don't know who that is either! I need to read more.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 10, 2010 0:04:35 GMT 1
I can't believe you don't know Gertrude Stein, the experimental US expatriate writer, or Chuck Palahniuk, the American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist, author of Fight Club!
*is not using his dictionary tool*
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Post by Knightfall on Sept 10, 2010 0:09:56 GMT 1
I got William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut. I really should read Slaughterhouse Five. =/
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Post by Battlechantress on Sept 10, 2010 0:11:02 GMT 1
At least I know who all three of the authors that the analyzer suggested that I write like (although I'm not particularly thrilled with being linked to Dan Brown in any way, shape or form. It could be worse, though; I just realized that at least it didn't mistake my writing for Stephanie Meyer's!).
You may not know Chuck's name, but I know you know what "Fight Club" is (he wrote the book that the movie is based on). As for Stein, she's not an easy read (and this is coming from someone who likes Harlan Ellison and other odd authors). If you really want to read her work, I suggest tracking down "Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein" if you can and stick with that.
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Post by lieden on Sept 10, 2010 7:39:32 GMT 1
I had tried iwl about two months or so ago. The first bit I tried (I think it was the Binary Star chapter posted here) came out as Dan Brown. Despite being convinced that iwl results are arbitrary at best, it completely ruined my day, sparked an existential crisis, and had me frantically editing that bit to weed out bad prose. XD The latest version of that same chapter came as David Foster Wallace (I haven't read him). Different chunks resulted into Arthur C. Clarke (the Ring drabble), James Joyce (BS beginning of Ch.2), and Stephen King. Weird stuff, not sure if it's on the fun or frustrating side! Knightfall, I haven't read Slaughterhouse Five (just seen the movie, which was very intriguing, and according to Vonnegut, a good adaptation), but I read The Sirens of Titan and would definitely recommend that.
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Post by Nemonus on Sept 12, 2010 22:02:25 GMT 1
I've done this before, and while I don't remember what writing sample I put in, got Stephen King--a chunk of "Remora" reveals Arthur Clarke. I'm beginning to think they use keywords rather than...whatever else you'd use to analyze writing style. Idk, though.
I <i>try</i> to write like J.V. Jones and Gene Wolfe.
LOL, Gertrude Stein? Look her up. Her crazy experimental poetry is...crazy. I'm not sure how I'd compare that to any piece of fanfiction.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 13, 2010 0:22:33 GMT 1
It's embarassing how little I've read. Seriously, I have no right to moderate on a writers' site.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Feb 5, 2011 7:59:45 GMT 1
Old thread, but I was away for a long time, so I've decided to see what I missed.
Well I've took a good chunk from 'White Rose' and it said I wrote like Mary Shelly. Really, I'm pretty sure there's no Frankenstein wandering around in this chapter, still I'm not complaining.
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Post by Mister Buch on Feb 5, 2011 9:45:47 GMT 1
Now we're talking! I loved Frankenstein.
However she did use the word 'countenance' like every five sentences. So watch out for that.
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Post by Roman Candle on Feb 5, 2011 11:53:12 GMT 1
I copied a few paragraphs from a short story I wrote a while back and I got Dan Brown. Then I copied the next two paragraphs of the same story and got J.K. Rowling. Then I copied the two paragraphs before the first one I posted and I got Vladimir Nabokov. I'll go with that one. Then, just for kicks, I posted the beginning of a philosophy essay I wrote for class, and I got H.P. Lovecraft. Hahaha! Either I am a schizophrenic writer or this thing is ludicrously inaccurate.
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Post by docfronkensteen on Feb 5, 2011 13:47:11 GMT 1
I entered a few paragrafs from another ME fic I haven't finished yet. And I got.....
Kurt Vonnegut.
That thing just made my day.
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Post by jklinders on Feb 5, 2011 14:30:52 GMT 1
Apparently I write like Jonathan Swift. I could do much worse. I think I'll avoid being too flattered by that though.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Feb 20, 2011 3:19:58 GMT 1
Then I copied the next two paragraphs of the same story and got J.K. Rowling. Did you get paid millions of pounds for writing those paragraphs? That may have been why you apparently write like her.
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