I write like J. K. Rowling!

[swissmarg]

I write like
J. K. Rowling

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

I also write like Chuck Palahniuk and Mary Shelley, Dan Brown, and Kurt Vonnegut.

And apparently Edgar Allen Poe writes in German.

When inverarity linked to this, I had to try it out. First I tried a couple of Harry Potter fan fics I've written. Funnily, they kept outputting 'J. K. Rowling'. Now, either that means I'm a pretty good mimic of her style, or words like 'Voldemort', 'Hogwarts', and 'Alohomora' were skewing the results.

So I tried a couple of my feeble attempts at original writing with very disparate results. The first one came up with Chuck Palahniuk (who I had to look up -- he started out as a journalist and has since written several novels that I've never heard of, except for Fight Club, but I've only heard of that because it was made into a movie (which I've never seen)).

Then I fed in three 20-page excerpts from an unfinished NaNoWriMo attempt I made back in 2005 or so. Each one came up with a different result (Mary Shelley, Dan Brown, and Kurt Vonnegut). Hey, at least I've heard of them. Not that they have similar styles or anything.

Then, just for kicks, I put in 14 pages of a German story I once started. I got Edgar Allen Poe.

Ah, the things we'll do to waste time.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I put in one of my LJ essays. Answer: Howard Phillips Lovecraft. I decided to give up.

[swissmarg]

LOL. Although maybe there is some truth to it?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I would be interested to know where you see it.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Actually, I am not surprised. You have a baroque, somewhat stiff style of writing that does often remind me of what was fashionable in the early 20th century.