Who do you write like?

[Killian]

There's a link at the end of this rather long post. Don't worry. I'm not a bot.

The internet brings us many things. I, for one, have undertaken opportunities for market shares and have met several treasured acquaintances among a sea of fondlers and very, very sneaky people.

There are also less social enterprises. For example, I was reinvestigating my old blog, contained within is a flux of embarrassing memories, which prevents me from revealing anything more incriminating than merely divulging its existence.

On this particular forum, there are a few people who make mental notes on our everyday letters. I recently shirked from schoolwork to fiddle with an online tool that compared my writing to that of a famous author's. For my older documents, I consistently got David Foster Wallace, whom I've never heard of, but a googling told me he's a recent writer whose style is marked by irony. Sounds fair to me. My writings from 2009 onward merited comparison to a rarely heard of author named Nabokov, link to results here. More technical writings yielded Arthur Clarke.

I should note that it's machine based, and expectedly, not without its hindrances. Something as long as an essay would give an ideal sample.

So, if you're interested, which famous writer do you write like?

Try the test at iwl.me

_{Since FAD's not here, I'll admit I couldn't resist submitting his arrestingly swarthy prose. He was likened to the writer of Treasure Island. Makes sense! A riveting son of an angry bear, he is!}

[Noah-san]

I just submitted a more... risque story of mine. Apparently with that sample it tells me that I write like Anne Rice... I never knew she wrote such naughty things.
Using an old post of mine I got William Gibson as a result. ("William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre.")  Last I subbmitted a hours worth of chat from IRC. Fri Nov 19 22:04:43 2010 was the time it started. I guess shartak as a whole writes like Daniel Defoe, the writer of Robinson Crusoe.

I would test more recent writings, but I do not have any... maybe I should get back to writing... right after I clean this high chair, play chair, blanket, bags, desks, tables, take out the trash, etc etc.  

EDIT: fun fact #??? I have a +11MB chat log just from Shartak's IRC on Efnet. Begins on Thu Sep 10 12:17:10 2009 and ends Wed Jul 7 2010] [15:56:19 Always fun to look and see things like this:
 "[Fri Jul 2 2010] [11:04:06] <Spookey>   Noahsan, have a heart-warming, earth-shattering, knee-trembling, c**k-sucking, mother-:palm:ing, lip-tingling, palm slapping OMG - yes - YES - YEEEESSSS - ME! goddam hell of a birthday, dude!"
Good times.

[Maj. Arcana]

My writings from 2009 onward merited comparison to a rarely heard of author named Nabokov, link to results here. More technical writings yielded Arthur Clarke.

I should note that it's machine based, and expectedly, not without its hindrances. Something as long as an essay would give an ideal sample.

if you write like nabokov then i guess it makes perfect sense that i write like james joyce.

[Johnny Hobo]

I did it twice. The first time using an old short story, which it said I wrote like Dan Brown. Another with using Dan Brown's actual writing, and having it tell me that Dan Brown writes like William Gibson.

[Neil Tathers]

Rudyard Kipling

Could be worse.

[Katie Calhoun]

First 2 tries I got Stephen King and the third try was Harry Harrison. I think I will go find my longer stories I wrote in college.

[Iceman]

More like Mr. Kipling, fatty.

[andrewbuff]

i dont have many things ive written at my access right now, but i did compare a short story i posted to facebook, and got douglas adams. seriously, that makes me happy, i love him so much. also, i read 2001 and i absolutely loved it, so writing like arthur c clarke is impressive. i tried a bit of prose i was experimenting with, got mary shelley. all this got my interested, and i plugged in my drive to get a few more stories and see what comes up. my longest story, an unfinished 'book' ive been 'writing' for a long time now yielded james joyce. last story i tried gave cory doctorow, who ive never heard of. hes apparently a blogger who favors liberalizing copyright laws, so that fits me pretty damn well right? i love ripping off other people.(at least i acknowledge that i do it.)

[Zeek]

cory doctorow is pretty damn awesome. he releases online versions of all his books for free, and you can even find his work in audio in a few places for free as well. i recommend eastern standard tribe or little brother

i got chuck palahniuk on three out of three for recent writings, and two rudyard kiplings & a james fenimore cooper on some older stuff.

[Swarm]

i dont have many things ive written at my access right now, but i did compare a short story i posted to facebook, and got douglas adams. seriously, that makes me happy, i love him so much. also, i read 2001 and i absolutely loved it, so writing like arthur c clarke is impressive. i tried a bit of prose i was experimenting with, got mary shelley. all this got my interested, and i plugged in my drive to get a few more stories and see what comes up. my longest story, an unfinished 'book' ive been 'writing' for a long time now yielded james joyce. last story i tried gave cory doctorow, who ive never heard of. hes apparently a blogger who favors liberalizing copyright laws, so that fits me pretty damn well right? i love ripping off other people.(at least i acknowledge that i do it.)

it says here that you write like major arcana

[andrewbuff]

i said that too!

[Billfred]

Edgar Allan Poe

Based on my latest post found Here

[Raffles]

Oh. Yes. Bitches.