Wherein I hop on the "IWL" bandwagon · 3:26am Feb 8th, 2015
So you've probably seen a few blogs around here talking about this "I Write Like" site, most recently (as far as I know), JohnPerry's. It's a neat little statistical analysis tool that uses word choice and writing style—by which I assume it means things like average word length, sentence length, etc.—to compare any length of text to the way various famous authors wrote.
It's, um, not perfect; I posted in about three pages of text from a 1910 Boston phonebook and got Stephen King. But the results are occasionally entertaining, so, you know, I'm gonna toss this up.
The Pinkie Paradox: Chuck Palahniuk.
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (/ˈpɔːlənɪk/, originally Ukrainian: Палагнюк Ukrainian pronunciation: [pɑlɑɦˈnʲuk];[1] born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a feature film.
Diane: "I am Pinkie's sense of... nope, I got nothing."
Through A Glass Darkly: Arthur C. Clarke.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (Sri Lankabhimanya Arthur Charles Clarke) (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist,[3] inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.[4] He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time.[5][6] His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, along with a large readership, making him into one of the towering figures of the field.
I don't really know how Darkly gets Arthur C. Clarke.
The Party Is Over: this is somehow also Chuck Palahniuk.
The Lunatics: J.K. Rowling.
Well, this is... You know what the weird part about this is? I pasted in the last chapter in isolation, just for giggles. If you've been following the story much, you might have noticed that "Nightmare" is a bit of a departure from the style of the rest of the story, but it still comes up as JK Rowling.
The Pinkie Parallel: Chuck Palahniuk.
Okay, something is going on here. Although I guess Derpy's narration is in the sort of minimalist, conversational style Palahniuk apparently writes in.
Chompers: Mark Twain.
I can't even express how pleased I am with this result, and will stubbornly insist that it reflects the gospel truth from now until the end of time.
One A.C. Clarke and one . . . Anne Rice?? Where did I go wrong?
To the more salient point: I can definitely see the Palahniuk/Twain angle. You have that certain . . . snarky, laconic style down pat.
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Anne Rice comes up surprisingly often; I'm not sure why.