Apparently, I write like... · 3:34am Feb 6th, 2015
So, according to "I Write Like" I write like L. Frank Baum if I feel like writing Gothic, which is not entirely what I'm going for.
Rudyard Kipling (which is totally awesome) while writing "Sparkle's No. 1 Assistant"...
And Anne Rice when writing "The Three Sisters: Like Fudge".
And I was going to leave it at that, but I'm curious how many authors I write like in The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments, since I try to adapt to the style of the specific author while doing those... lessee...
Prologue - Neil Gaiman (all me! yay!)
1 - Ian Fleming (based on GanonFLCL, written by me)
2 - Neil Gaiman (again) (based on BB, written by me)
3 - Raymond Chandler (Written by me with plenty of input from BrianBlessedPony)
4 - Raymond Chandler (again!) (Written with Conner Cogwork)
5 - Margaret Atwood (Written with Mimezigma)
6 - Raymond Chandler (...again?) (All co-written with Capn' Chrysallid)
7 - Raymond Chandler (...again?! What the...) (written by me with some input from AestheticB)
8 - Raymond Chandler (Say whaaaa?!) (Written with SilentBelle)
9 - James Joyce (Ye gods. Finally. Written with Rusty the Brave)
10 - Neil Gaiman (third time!) (Written with Dromiscosuchus)
Seems there's an abundance of Chandler in there. Maybe Sweetie is somehow a detective? Of course the balance of Neil Gaiman does bring the Force to equality, and there's those little bits of Ian Fleming which are a direct result of Rarity petting Opalescence and looking straight at...
Mister Bond...
As for Atwood, I only read the Cat's Eye... I really have no point of reference there either since I read that ages ago. James Joyce... I tried to read Ulysses once. I'm just glad it wasn't required reading. It... just wasn't my thing.
Neil Gaiman... well, that resonates well with what I love to read and write, so if I managed to emulate him a little (unintentionally) more power to me. I personally don't think I write anything like him, if we're to be honest, but I don't doubt for a minute that I have some pretty decent influence of his on my writing.
Ah well.
Pasted in what I've got of my Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fic and I got...Arthur Clarke. I would be a little bit more flattered if I'd actually read any of his books.
2773067 I got Arthur Clarke as well and I used the prologue to one of my stories.
Huh, apparently my big flashback chapter, which still causes me stress when I think about it, reads like J.K. Rowling. Not sure I see that, but okay
Neil Gaiman I can totally see, but James Joyce is a bit of a surprise.
From my story: A Friendly Introduction, it says I write like Margaret Atwood. I'm guessing that is good.
I put sections of my stories through this thing and got Douglas Adams and (somehow) H.P. Lovecraft.
I'm really, really confused apparently.
First results I got Douglas Adams... then the second was J. R. R. Tolkien... okay then, lol.
>says I write like James Joyce
is this thing broken
My four stories:
J. R. R. Tolkien (An Oath)
James Joyce (HiE: Epilogue)
William Shakespeare (Lunam Subriden)
William Gibson (Out of Season)
I think the website is flawed...
For me any of my stories I'm compared to H.P. Lovecraft.
Hmmm -- It said Dan Brown for the latest chapter of "Discord's Parting Gift to the CMC."
James Joyce for "You Should Have Told Me"
And apparently the FiO thing I am playing around with is like Edgar Allen Poe.
The lack of mention on how awesome L. Frank Baum is was disappointing, but i'll still talk to you. :derpytongue:
Definitely cool to see all the different styles coming into play there. I have an urge to find my battered and dogeared paperback copy of Just-So Stories now.
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Excuse me?
Got Arthur "I assume a 'C.' should be here" Clarke for Inquiry (I plopped the entire thing in the box), and Chuck Palahniuk for one of my non-pony short stories. I'll be honest, I had to look up that Chuck fellow. I knew his name sounded familiar but I couldn't put my finger on where. Turns out he wrote Fight Club.
I'm okay with all this.
Using a large sample range of stories that I feel are most representative of my current level of skill and usual style, the results it keeps coming back to are Arthur Clarke and J.R.R. Tolkien. But Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft, and somebody called Ursula K. Le Guin also variously came up. Also, William Shakespeare, but I'm pretty sure that's just because the story that got that result was written in the style of a dramatic monologue. So, a broad range of authors, and mostly good ones, it seems. I'm pretty happy with that.
i woldin't be surprised if the site randomizes the result based off keywords if not then something similar.
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it tells me apparently I write like James Joyce I very much doubt that.
I put my stories Tastes Like Heresy, and then Desert Spice, into the box. Each time it told me I write like J.R.R. Tolkien.
This amuses me greatly.
Okay, let's see what I can get out of this...I've got too many stories both on- and off-site, so I'll use a random sampling.
Tomodachi wa Mahoushoujo (chapter: Magic 20) - Dan Brown. God, that's insulting.
18 Sickles (and a Knut) (Harry Potter fic) - J.K. Rowling. So...pretty much spot-on there...
Thirty Moons (Phase I) - Stephen King. Wot? I mean yeah, he's one of my influences, but...wot?
All of Us Together, Forever as One - Neil Gaiman.
Dan Vs. The Affair (part one) - Stephenie Meyer.
Fire in the Water (Ranma/MKR) (Act One) - Anne Rice.
Mare Wars (Equisode IV) - Douglas Adams.
Splatterbarn - J.D. Salinger. (WOT.)
I did a few more tests I won't bore you with...the only writer I got compared to twice is William Gibson, and I haven't gotten the same comparison twice with two chapters of the same story. The only exception is my Harry Potter stuff, where it CONSISTENTLY returns J.K. Rowling.
My results are silly. For kicks, I tried each individual chapter of everything I've published here, and only had a resulting author doubled once. Palahniuk, Salinger, Tolkien, Rowling, Kipling, Lovecraft, Dan Brown, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gibson, and at least one guy I'd never heard of. Hell do I make of this?
So, uhm... I write like him...
Not that I'm offended of course, I love Lovecraft's work, but I seriously doubt it's licit to say chapter one of my Armor for Two can possibly compared to his genre or writing style...
Hmm, my story appears to be primarily written similarly to
Dan Brown, Kurt Vonnegut, Ian Fleming, and strangely Edgar Allen Poe and then J. R. R. Tolkien in my most recent chapter.
What's most strange about this is the fact that I've only read Poe and have watched movies based on Tolkien/Fleming.
To be honest, I'm not sure the site in question is very accurate, so I'd take everything you see with a grain of salt. It probably doesn't analyze writing styles; more likely, it looks for keywords used by other authors.
This is the same site I blogged about in 2013. It turns out it may just be using word frequency counts, which capture vocabulary but not style (That's why "stylometrics" programs to identify authors use word counts rather than style--it's easier to alter style than vocabulary.)
I was thrilled at first that it said my Sherlock Holmes story was written in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, but when I removed the word "Watson" from the story, it said it was in the style of Ian Fleming.
I stuck my most recent fic All for You in there;
Results for All for You were;
Chapter 1: J. R. R. Tolkien
Chapter 2: Douglas Adams (and yet not the chapter with the Babel fish joke)
Chapter 3: Lewis Carroll
Chapter 4: Ian Fleming
Chapter 5: Anne Rice
Chapter 6: Anne Rice (ooh, consistency!)
Chapter 7: Lewis Carroll
Chapter 8: J. R. R. Tolkien
Chapter 9: Neil Gaiman
Chapter 10: Neil Gaiman (ooh, again!)
Chapter 11: Margaret Atwood
Epilogue: JK Rowling
So yeah...
2774112 Aha! That's where I probably saw it first!
I definitely agree with you on the vocabulary vs style thing, but it is a very amusing program for what it is
all four of my bits got james joyce
huh
ok then
~Leonzilla