Subject: I've taken one of those tests before!
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Posted on: 2012-02-16 21:50:00 UTC
And ironically, that's how I found out about David Foster Wallace. Whose work I still haven't read. :/
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I write like... by
on 2012-02-16 21:46:00 UTC
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Somebody posted this on another forum. It's really interesting!
http://iwl.me/
Apparently I write like Rudyard Kipling. :D -
Going to shoot this thing. by
on 2012-02-23 17:25:00 UTC
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3 out of 4 of my PPC writings got a "Stephanie Meyer" result. Oddly, the other one had "Douglas Adams" as the result. (I didn't submit the MST as those kind of writing has a formula to follow)
So, my writing is 3/4 Publishable Suethor and 1/4 Great Genius? It... doesn't make any sense. -
I'm told I write like Dan Brown... by
on 2012-02-19 14:28:00 UTC
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...um...who? I've never heard of this Dan Brown...
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Author of the Da Vinci Code... by
on 2012-02-19 18:11:00 UTC
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...and various other popular titles such as Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, etc.
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Ah. Thanks! :) (nm) by
on 2012-02-19 20:50:00 UTC
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(the great god) Pterry writes like... by
on 2012-02-18 22:29:00 UTC
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Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Rice...
The analyzing-thing never repeats itself. -
Huh. by
on 2012-02-18 22:26:00 UTC
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It's fun, and I would be flattered, but then I'm pretty sure Stephenie Meyer is the only author they've got that I'd be ashamed of.
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Re: I write like... by
on 2012-02-18 19:43:00 UTC
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Apparently almost all of my Miah and Cali missions resemble William Gibson's writings, with a few coming out as Cory Doctorow.
Probably not surprisingly, most of my Kelok and Unger missions resemble Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
My original stuff is seemingly random. Every chapter was a different author. This might not be a good thing.
The weirdest result was on my dark urban fantasy. It's first person, present tense, and according to this thing, it reads like something Jack London wrote. -
That's interesting... by
on 2012-02-18 06:22:00 UTC
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My permission piece is written like J.K Rowling apparently.
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Let's see here. by
on 2012-02-17 19:55:00 UTC
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Using one of my characters' profiles, I apparently write like Isaac Asimov. Using a backstory I wrote to tie another of my characters into the world of an RP I frequent, I also write like Arthur Clarke. With several paragraphs of a fic I'm writing for the drawer, I write like J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally, with a post I wrote for the aforementioned RP, I write like Cory Doctorow.
The first one was from several years ago, and the last one was deliberately written in a different style, but the other two are both pretty recent and written as normal. My writing style must not be very consistent. -
Re: I write like... by
on 2012-02-17 14:55:00 UTC
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I put both my missions in, and got Robert Louis Stevenson for both.
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I wonder what the criteria are. by
on 2012-02-17 14:34:00 UTC
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It says that some of my missions scan like Shakespeare. I am not surprised, really; I favor short lines of dialog and action, peppered with some longer exposition here and there. I can see how that might scan to something like this like playwriting. I wonder how it evaluates entries.
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Welp by
on 2012-02-17 13:54:00 UTC
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Apparently my post-apocolyptic Peter Pan retelling reads like Stephen King, and the few pages of my mission that I've written so far read like Dan Brown.
Also, I stuck in some of Tara Gilesbie's work for shits and giggles. Apparently she writes like Mark Twain. Whatever has the world come to... -
Hmm ... by
on 2012-02-17 05:49:00 UTC
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Pasted in a chapter of some original fiction, and found out I apparently write like Dan Brown.
... Should I be concerned right about now? o_O -
For a fun game ... by
on 2012-02-17 09:46:00 UTC
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... me and my friends use iwl.me for literary roulette. We take turns to paste in bits of our fics to see who first gets 'You write like Stephenie Meyer'.
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on 2012-02-17 05:55:00 UTC
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Just put in a short piece of dialogue from an English assignment. I can apparently write like Chuck Palahnuik now.
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Fascinating... by
on 2012-02-17 02:23:00 UTC
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Apparently my Permission piece resembles Douglas Adams and my upcoming Intel piece reads like H.P Lovecraft.
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Let's see here... by
on 2012-02-17 01:17:00 UTC
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From my last full DMS mission:
I write like
Stephen KingI Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!
Huh. I would not have called that, although it has been a while since I've read anything by Mr. King. I do remember liking his dialogue, though. -
Huh. by
on 2012-02-17 01:17:00 UTC
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I am actually pretty surprised. Seeing as I'm sick and probably am not going anywhere for the next day or so, I decided to make a list of all my results from both my spin-off and my experimental writing blog.
The results were 6 counts of William Shakespeare, 2 counts each for Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, and Stephen King, and one count each of J. K. Rowling and Oscar Wilde.
...I don't think my writing is very Shakespearean. -
Re: I write like... by
on 2012-02-17 01:16:00 UTC
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Jay and Acacia write like... Douglas Adams!
(I used a sample from TOS.)
Terry Pratchett, using a sample, hand typed, from the back of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, writes like J. D. Salinger. -
Considering that first one... by
on 2012-02-17 01:44:00 UTC
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I find that strangely fitting.
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Hee. by
on 2012-02-17 00:38:00 UTC
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From this thing.
I write like
H. P. LovecraftI Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!
From Jof's Origin...
I write like
Harry HarrisonI Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!
Interestin'! -
Re: I write like... by
on 2012-02-17 00:03:00 UTC
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Haha, this is awesome!
For some reason, it thinks that I write like Dan Brown, Anne Rice, and J.K. Rowling...all in the same fic. o_O -
Heh, by
on 2012-02-16 23:51:00 UTC
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So, for one chapter of a Harry Potter 'fic I'm writing I apparently write like Edgar Allen Poe, while for the other I write like Ms. Rowling herself, but for most of my works, it seems, I write like David Foster Wallace.
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So I got a little carried away by
on 2012-02-16 23:02:00 UTC
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I write like Kurt Vonnegut and Cory Doctorow (judging by two separate paragraphs of one of my blog posts), and Chuck Palahniuk (judging by my Thor fanfic).
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What by
on 2012-02-16 22:36:00 UTC
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My Tales of Vesperia fanfic says that I write like J.D. Salinger. My Hetalia fanfic says I write like William Gibson.
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I've taken one of those tests before! by
on 2012-02-16 21:50:00 UTC
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And ironically, that's how I found out about David Foster Wallace. Whose work I still haven't read. :/