OT: Analyze Your Writing Style
So, I was tipped to this site today and I entered the text from my last Leaders and Best in 50 States diary (yes, go read it - it's about Cazzie Russell, not Nipsey Russell BTW (thanks Njia)), and lo and behold:
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Brian would be so proud.
When I entered the text from plays 5 and 6 of Brian's "Of the Decade: Best Plays Part II", I got this result.:
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Brian will be so pleased.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 AM ^
I got Stephen King. I don't know whether to be happy about that or to take it as a sign that I should stop writing.
EDIT: I posted a different writing of mine and also got David Foster Wallace. Apparently my talents are diverse.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 AM ^
I Write Like by Memoires, Mac journal software. Sponsored by David Foster Wallace and Rotel.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 AM ^
I copy and pasted something from Hamlet and it said I write like Agatha Christie.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 AM ^
I'm not sure how many options they have. My last scheduling post on the home site also came up with David Foster Wallace. Although, the last canto posted came up with Cory Doctorow, which seems reasonable.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 AM ^
Apparently, my style is like H.P. Lovecraft (granted, I entered a business paragraph).
Who is HP Lovecraft, you ask?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction...
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:31 AM ^
I say to them "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:29 PM ^
I for one welcome our new Cthulu overlords.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^
I got him, too.... by entering the conclusion section from my senior thesis....
The Deep Ones will be pleased
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:18 AM ^
Kurt Vonnegut! I can deal with that, indeed.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^
OH CRAP!
Dr. Hannibal Lectere
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
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August 2nd, 2010 at 10:26 AM ^
Apparantly, I write like David Foster Wallace, too. I wouldn't know because I've never read his stuff but, I guess I can just read mgoblog and call it a day.
Also, Chris Chase of Yahoo!'s Shutdown Corner writes like David Foster Wallace.
I bet a trasncription of my 4-year old's speech patterns would by a la DFW as well.
Stupid statistical methods...
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 AM ^
Put in 5 writing samples and got five different authors.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 AM ^
I put in some legal writing I have done for work today and apparently I write like Jonathan Swift.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:31 AM ^
about the role of the notion of substance in Locke's Essay and it told me I write like Edgar Allan Poe.
Then I entered an early short story by Thomas Pynchon and it came up with Ian Fleming, which, given Pynchon's obvious love of spy novels is not bad.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:38 AM ^
Apparently I write like Margaret Atwood, Mary Shelly, HP Lovecraft, and Oscar Wilde. So yea.......
Seems I shouldn't be reading Mgoblog, as everyone else here seems to be DFW clones.
EDIT:And this post is spot on Lewis Carroll...............
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 AM ^
I write like H.P. Lovecraft, David Foster Wallace or Isaac Asimov.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
I am not sure how accurate it is, but I am sure the ego stoking is enough to cover any fatal flaw. Depending on my outlet, I get H.P. Lovecraft, David Foster Wallace, but my favorite was Arthur Clarke.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:12 AM ^
http://gawker.com/5587658/what-famous-writer-does-mel-gibson-sound-like
Looks like I am in elite company.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
My results claim I write like a retarded 6-year-old.
I can live with that.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^
An article I wrote and it came up with P. G. Wodehouse?
By the way, copy and pasted Terrelle Pryor's research essay too.... I guess a blooming David Foster Wallace too lol.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:04 AM ^
I most often get H.P. Lovecraft and David Foster Wallace. Like others have said, I doubt the authenticity of this, but cool no doubt. Thanks OP!
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
My blog entries imitate DFW; my personal emails similar to James Joyce; and my gchats are like Dan Brown.
Correction: This post was written by Charles Dickens
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
I enter Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" lyrics and the analyzer said he wrote like William Gibson. Not the first name that would come to mind, but they are both visionaries who speak about what they know with intimate detail, so...
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:06 PM ^
Hopefully if I try this I won't get a reply stating that I write "like Michael Rosenberg". I'd have to kick my own ass.
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:34 PM ^
If you enter something by Rosenberg you'll probably get something like
I write like
A huge douchebag
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 PM ^
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:58 PM ^
Looks like David Foster Wallace is their default. I put in a macro and was told I write like him. Either that or he was also a skilled coder.
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:59 PM ^
My best friend and I spent a good week this July talking about that site.
I was unimpressed. I put three separate paragraphs from my Coutenance More in Sorrow... post-dong punch diary, and each returned a completely different writer, none of whom was DFW, when I was actually trying to write like DFW (though I did pull up two authors DFW liked to use).
All told, it's about as useful, IMHO, as those Facebook apps that tell you which Sopranos character you are and whatnot.
I got about 5 different authors. Cory Doctorow, Dan Brown, etc. Also, I noticed when I entered different types of writing (ie. essay, short story, blog entry) all got different responses. Apparently my toast as the best man in a wedding is like Stephan King, while a short story is Cory Doctorow, and another story is Dan Brown. I have yet to get Wallace though, so I'll keep trying, maybe this post will do...
Edit: If you like my style of posting on MGoBlog, then you may like... Cory Doctorow!
Cool beans. Not that I believe myself to be anywhere near Shakespeare. I am closer to the Shakespeare who played for Miami in the 80's than the Bard.
I got Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Nobody has gotten either of them yet. I feel special.