Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Versatility

I like these internet toys. Apparently:

I write like
Kurt Vonnegut

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Wow. I am proud of that, a fine writer. So how about something else, a bit of academic writing:

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Never read anything by him so I wouldn't know. So let's try another piece:

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Shit! Quick, delete it this instant. The shame, the shame. Slap another passage in to take the taste away.

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Who? Well what about trying something else.

I write like
H. G. Wells

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



There, that is more respectable, even if some of his politics were a bit dodgy.

Consistently male I suppose, but then I did a bit of cheating and found that Emily Bronte writes like James Fenimore Cooper, George Eliot writes like Charles Dickens as does Thomas Hardy, Thackeray and, I suspect, most 19th Century English novelists. Let's go earlier. Mary Shelly writes like Mary Shelly, but Laurence Sterne writes like Robert Louis Stevenson. Daniel Defoe has the style of Jane Austen. A little more populist perhaps, Agatha Christie writes like Arthur Conan Doyle. Oh well, so it goes ...

Thanks to Shuggy for helping me waste an odd half hour.

6 comments:

Will said...

i wish there was a forum on the internet where i could parlay my thoughts.

fyacebyook.

Will said...

Oscar Lomax said,

August 31, 2010 at 10:50 pm

I bid 20 Parseks for your eyeball Dunbar.

Take it or leave it.

Your move.

sorry -- am banned from commenting at other blopg -- so did it here

The Plump said...

And I don't blame them. Clearly this Lomax fellow is someone of low repute and an obvious ne'er-do-well.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I am on my third book by David Wallace. Cannot say it's an easy going, but I will be so bold as to recommend his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Without fear of retribution, that is.

Rabelais said...

I did a bit of cheating to. I filled the I WRITE LIKE analysis box with random words, poor spelling and gobbledy-gook and it gave me an 'I write like James Joyce' badge!

Anonymous said...

Great! I write too like Kurt Vonnegut (don't know) and Dan Brown (don't like). I wanted to post my "I write like" post as well some time ago but I awlays postponed it 'til I forgot it :)