What's your Writing Style? Just for Fun

A sample of one of my engineering reports got Dan Brown

A very short RP story got Stephen King

Then I got
I write like H. G. Wells. Proof: http://iwl.me/s/a85d5606

Does the whole badge code thing if you want. Wonder if I submit an ERP if I can get Jackie Collens or Charlotte Harris (hmm maybe the word vampire)

Mario Puzo, my failed noir-steampunk-supernatural fiction for last year's nanowrimo

Dan Brown, for a miscellaneous fantasy piece

JK Rowling, for a CoH short story

Stephen King, a short story about a crew of zombie mercenaries

Dan Brown or Kurt Vonnegut, apparently.

Huh, that's a neat thing. I chucked 10 RP stories and a couple chapters of a long-abandoned novel at it, my final count was:

5 James Joyce
3 David Foster Wallace
1 Douglas Adams
1 Margaret Atwood
1 Ursula K. Le Guin
1 Chuck Palahniuk

Arthur C. Clarke


..I am pleased.

I tested every chapter from two stories I wrote, and a couple of unfinished ones from a third.

I got:

Stephen King
JD Salinger
David Foster Wallace
HG Wells
William Gibson
JK Rowling
HP Lovecraft
Kurt Vonnegut
Margaret Mitchell
Dan Brown
Ian Fleming
Stephanie Meyer (WUT)

I didn't really count them as I went but I know I got Lovecraft and King twice and HG Wells a few times. But David Foster Wallace seemed to have the overwhelming majority, I got him a lot.

EDIT: Did a few of my longer forum posts and came up with a couple more names:

James Fenimore Cooper
Jack London

Along with a couple more Stephen Kings and a William Gibson, and a LOT of DFW.

I put an excerpt for "The Gunslinger" in and apparently Stephen King writes like Stephen King


Who knew?

I tossed in a short summary of a dream that I'd written down one morning after waking up, apparently I wrote it like David Foster Wallace

The introduction from a round of an rp tournament from the battleon forums that I'd judged: James Joyce
But after I included the reminder of the rules that I'd included, the order of combat, and the description of the area of combat I got marked down as: James Fenimore Cooper

David Foster Wallace.

Not that I have the sampling I used to check posted anywhere. I really have to get back into that habit.

An engineering paper about nuclear power got me Issac Asimov.

William Gibson! Wow. I am SO happy!

Edit: Heh, I was looking at the popup on the right side that asks for my name and email so that I can become a better writer. I ignored it. Heck, I write like William Gibson.

I don't need no stinking help.

3 separate paragraphs from the same story submitted got me:

Mario Puzo
Dan Brown
Stephan King

So ok, I have multiple personalities.

((Didn't see the analyzer link.

I got James Fenimore Cooper, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austin, Dan Brown, Ian Fleming (woot!), William Gibson, J.K. Rowling, and Charles Dickens (double woot!).

But honestly, I just pasted the name "Elizabeth" in a couple hundred times, and it still told me I write like Jane Austin. ))

I think my only repeats were Stephen King and William Gibson. Stories about my decidedly unscary child ghost got Kurt Vonnegut and Steven King. A sort of fairy-tale-styled legend I wrote about someone else's character got Lovecraft.

I stuck in a bit of one of Neil Gaiman's "15 Portraits of Despair" and got Stephenie Meyer, though. That kept me snickering for a while.

Apparently I write C# code like Douglas Adams, and Perl like David Foster Wallace, but my chord progressions are like Salinger.

I've gotten Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, and Isaac Asimov...

But the one I get most is Arthur C. Clarke.

Vonnegut, Brown, and Jack London. I think the last one fits me more than the first two, personally.

Playing around with it yesterday, it took me three tries for Shakespeare to be like Shakespeare.

Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, and William Shakespeare

...wot.

My one short story got me David Foster Wallace. Who I can honestly say I have never read a word of. :P

David Foster Wallace for a comedy piece, and Margaret Atwood for a more serious one. That's cool, I love her!

Depending on the sample I used, I got Anne Rice, Stephen King, James Joyce, or Dan Brown.