Totally Pointless and Narcissistic Blog Post · 7:19am May 5th, 2014
So, I've been sitting around on I Write Like, which supposedly analyzes your prose or whatever and tells you which famous writer it thinks you're most like. Naturally, I had to try as soon as I heard of it. I've been running all my stories here through it, and the results have been interesting. Below is what I got, in chronological order. Or, you could just skip to the bottom line for the general consensus. Or skip the whole thing, you know, whatever....
Spike's Mare - William Gibson
Very acceptable. I do enjoy his work.
Pinkie's Treat - Chuck Palahniuk
Uh, okay then.
A Little Help From Her Friends - James Joyce
Dunno that one either. I must be a philistine.
Diamond Dentistry - Ian Fleming
The 007 guy? Cool.
Revenge of the Dumb Fabric - Raymond Chandler
Sounds familiar, too lazy to investigate.
Turnips in the Moonlight - J.K. Rowling
That's totally cool with me.
Equestria is a Silly Place required a bunch of different entries since it's an anthology. Though it thinks that all of them jammed together resemble the work of Anne Rice.
Felix's Most Embarrassing Moment - Anne Rice
Rainbow Dash Beats the Stuffing Out of Everypony - P.G. Wodehouse
The Battle for Breakfast - Chuck Palahnuik
I Yup and Nope Well, I Yup and Nope Very Well - J.D. Salinger
A Disturbance at the Hive - Margaret Atwood
Ickiness - David Foster Wallace
Scootaloo Finds a Genie - L. Frank Baum
Doubling the Load - Gertrude Stein
Under the Silver Stars - Robert Louis Stevenson
Not bad.
Dark Spectrum: Public Enemy - J.R.R. Tolkien
Seriously?
Separate Ways - Stephanie Meyer
You take that back!
Wonderful - Stephen King
Hmm. Not really a fan, but I've got nothing against him.
The Silver Spooner - Neil Gaiman
Well, I guess that's alright.
Diamond Tiara Buys Eggs and Nothing Happens - Ian Fleming
That's twice now.
Daring Do Takes a Bubble Bath - Neil Gaiman
Again? Interesting.
Flowers and Gauze - David Foster Wallace
Interesting.
Disastrous with an Asterisk - P.G. Wodehouse
Am I really this uncultured as to not know some of these names?
Trixie's Clubhouse - Ian Fleming
I'm starting to sense a pattern here.
Hide Your Foals - Anne Rice
Hmm. Interesting.
Diamond Tiara vs. The Claw Machine - Ian Fleming
Okay, seriously, now.
A Moderately Special Day - Ray Bradbury
Not bad.
Diamond Tiara's Cosmic Journey - Ian Fleming
Yup.
The Bottom Line: So, apparently, I write like Ian Fleming. Interesting, since I've never actually read any of his work. But, you know what? I'm so bored, I'm gonna take this whole blog post and run it through. Whom do I write like whilst I'm casually blogging?
James Joyce, apparently.
P.S.: Oh, and according to that website's analyzer thingy, Bohemian Rhapsody emulates the style of Ernest Hemmingway. The More You Know....
Interesting answers ya got!
I did this a while back, and apparently I write like science fiction authors. The most common ones I got were Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne and some Russian sci-fi author I cant remember.
I just ran the entirety of what I've so far written for "The Path of Lore and Kings" into it (including the 9k words of unpublished stuff) and it spat out "J. K. Rowling" wow...
Erhm, somehow my prose in "Lyra Blew A Fuse" is like Stephen King... I'm confused
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You have my envy.
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You know, I can kinda see that.
2080273 I do remember that Stephanie Meyer showed up for the several chapters of some fanfiction I wrote. That story is currently scrapped, and for good reason.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna sit here and say that "Separate Ways" is my best work or anything, but geeze, I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, "Spike's Mare," my first and lowest-rated fanfic, got William Gibson. That guy was awesome.