Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Who do you write like?

After having a chunk of his writing analyzed at a site called I Write Like, John informed me that his style resembles Kurt Vonnegut’s. Not too shabby I’d say. Then he mentioned that my brother Robin’s writing style alternates between Edgar Allen Poe and the sci fi writer William Gibson. I was almost afraid to ask who I write like. But he told me that Stephen King kept popping up when he entered some of my blog posts. I once stayed up all night reading The Shining, so I was quite pleased about being compared to SK.
What about my book though? Apparently here my style resembles David Foster Wallace, a writer I’d never heard of. But I wikipedia-ed him and plan to read some of his work. All I can say is that I’m glad I didn’t know my style resembled Wallace’s while I was writing Creating from the Inside Out. It probably would have intimidated me.
Now when it comes to my fiction, two names came up: Stephen King again—and James Joyce. I think that’s absolutely hilarious; my split writing personality might just be the reason why I’ve never managed to have a novel published.
If you want to find out which famous writer you write like, get some of your writing together (a few paragraphs at least) and visit this site.

P.S. Just analyzed this blog post and got H.P. Lovecraft. Hmmm. I may have to revise the split personality thing to include multiples.

9 comments:

martha brown said...

This is so fun! I love your multiple personalities!

Leslie Jane Moran said...

Okay,I'm in Albuquerque NM, and I'm not sure if this is making any difference, but I'm continually James Joyce!

I guess I'll have to crack open a copy of Ulysses! Good grief!

I'm going to keep trying! :) What fun.

Susan Williamson said...

I think this calls for a book/writing club, don't you Leslie? After we read Ulysses, we have to start writing our own stream of consciousness novel.

Anonymous said...

I'm Jane Austen. (How cool is that?)
xxxYr Sister Pam

Irene said...

This is hilarious, I always feel like Erma Bombeck, but according to the analysis, I'm Ian Fleming. Wonder if he had spelling issues.

A bird in the hand said...

One said Stephen King; another said Stephenie Meyer (who can't even spell her own name). I tried a third time and got...Oscar Wilde.

And I thought I wrote like... me!

Lots of fun, though.

A bird in the hand said...

OK. So In entered the paragraph from my blog entry "The Ties that Bind", and this time I got...Kurt Vonnegut.

I really need to stop!!!!!

Sharon said...

So nice to see you back! I think it's based on content but I write like Arthur Clarke and Raymond Chandler. Quite different to match a person with mood swings....

Debrina said...

This was in our news in NZ the other day. I was tempted to check out my style, then thought better of it. Ha ha. Maybe I should put this comment in and see what happens?