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Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by T. James

T. James — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:07:47 +0000

I would have been first in the queue to vouch for your sanity – until you came on to Faye last week; now I can’t imagine you writing like anyone except Lovecraft. I think the Analyser may be more astute than I thought, and it’s picking up personality traits as well as writing style…

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by T. James

T. James — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:03:25 +0000

Authur C. Clarke is a sci-fi writer. He used to write those paper books way back when I was a boy – back in the old days. I remember huddling around a candle in our shoe box with the whole family while my Dad read them to us using sign language because he’d sold his larynx for some pills so my little brother didn’t die of typhoid, but that’s another story…

A slightly more real account can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:40:02 +0000

For some reason it said I write like HP Lovecraft. Now that is a little weird. I’ve no giant beasties and I certainly haven’t wibbled. LOL

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by Tamara Warden

Tamara Warden — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:53:34 +0000

Well, I put in my entire first short story ever, a new beginning and it says I write like Arthur Clarke…. who is he?

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by T. James

T. James — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:04:33 +0000

Hi Matthew, it’s probably fair to say you have tested the Analyser’s ability to destruction, either that or you write more like Anne Rice than Anne Rice does, and I write more like Stephen King than Stephen King does.

I tried it with some Shakespeare and it got that right, so perhaps it prefers classical and literary fiction over more modern genre fiction – it has certainly name-dropped some huge literary names as well as several of the grand-daddies of sci-fi for you. I know you’ve said sci-fi isn’t your first choice of genre, but maybe the Analyser is trying to tell you something…

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:29:11 +0000

Apparently I write like Anne Rice, Arthur Clark, Isaac Asimov, Leo Tolstoy, and a variety of others depending on what chapter or excerpt I use.

I just entered the first two pages of Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Lestat” which really defines her style and the character.

It says she writes like H.P. Lovecraft

I entered excerpts from three Stephen King books. He writes like Mario Puzo (Dark Tower), George Orwell, and Cory Doctorow.

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by Darcie

Darcie — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:46:51 +0000

Hehe Thanks!
The way I see…they are all bestsellers, so I’m okay with that.

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by T. James

T. James — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:44:56 +0000

You write like Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman wrote Sandman. Sandman is cool, therefore Neil Gaiman is cool, therefore Darcie is cool.

You write like Stephanie Meyer. Stephanie Meyer wrote the Twilight series. The Twilight series is about teenage angst and sparkly vampires. Erm?

You write like Anne Rice. Anne Rice wrote Interview With a Vampire. Interview With a Vampire is cool, therefore Anne Rice is cool, therefore Darcie is cool. It’s okay, you are cool.

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by Darcie

Darcie — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:11:34 +0000

This post was so fun! I just had to go try it myself.

I used 3 scenes from my current WIP. Here’s what I got:

Neil Gaiman – opening scene
Stephenie Meyer – fighting scene
Anne Rice – “hot and heavy” scene (if you catch my drift)

I’ll take those three! Meyer wouldn’t be my first choice for my fighting scene, so I’ll definitely have to work on that. But the other two ain’t bad.

Comment on I Write Like: Stephen King, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace And, Rumour Has It, Vladimir Nabokov. What’s Your Writing Style—and what can it tell you? by T. James

T. James — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:09:54 +0000

Hmmm. If you write like Lovecraft, then I shall talk to you slowly and gently, and back carefully away making … no … sudden … moves. NowrunsawayreallyreallyFAST!