Hello.
I came across this nifty online service which purports to analyze your writing style and compares that to famous authors. It works like this, you input a paragraph or two in to the website and it will supposedly tell you who you write like. Sounds fun, right? Yes!
Naturally, it irked my curiosity. I had to give it a go. I copy pasted an article from this blog. It told me I write like Stephen King. I was shocked. I have read a few books by Mr. King. He is a great story teller. One of the best science fiction writers. I can not possibly be writing like him. So, I tried again. Same result. I think my abuse of ellipsis is confusing the analytical process used by this service.
So, I threw in one of the recent posts on this blog. You will notice that the later posts have somewhat a different writing style. This time the name Cory Doctorow came up and I drew a blank.
Well, to be honest, I have not heard of Mr. Doctorow and had to google him. Turns out, according to wikipedia, he is a very famous Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. Well then, I guess I didn't do that bad.
These kinds of "Which/What are you?" services are fun, but really meaningless. Always limited to a predetermined list of answers. Answers should not be taken seriously at all. But try it out. Do tell who you write like.
Laterx.
11 comments:
my god i did it and each post points to a different author! lol. shud analyze the recent 3 or 4 now, i just checked from different posts in my archive.
ieccco ::
if each post is different ... am guessing that you have different styles when writing about different subjects depending on the emo factor ... hehe ...
I posted my latest blog post ("Vague statements can mean only one thing...") and it turned out I write like Dan Brown ("Da Vinci Code") LOL
Thanks for sharing. Was fun -- and very useful to self-analyze hehe
Hilath ::
Dan Brown eh ???
I've read most of his work ... I enjoyed most ... He is a successful novelist ...
I wonder why the language critics dont like him ...
I read an article in which a language "pro" dissects/analyze the hell out the 1st para of Da Vinci Code ...
The language critics sure do not like Mr. Brown !!!
Doyle..Sir Arthur Conan doyle. Not surprising since I read almost all of his books while growing up. I didn't realize that it had such a profound influence on me.
The problem with Mr.Brown's is that his writings suggest the we (the readers) are complete idiots. It may perhaps be appealing for a ten year old when he describes the same thing over and over again. While I do not question his success, I do however feel the need here to express my dislike for the mans work. I say this in spite of having read all his books in rapid succession.
I got the same results as you. Cory Doctorow.!!
Coolio! Loved trying this out!
I found myself in ieccco's position when I used the tool. Different writers for different posts posted on two very different blogs of mine. I guess I tend to change my writing style based on what I am writing ei?
Was fun! Thanks for sharing ;)
hudhuhandhu ::
Yeah ... seems most people wrrite inconsisten patterns ... but i guess that is very natural ...
also ... i think this thing is *rigged* ... hehe ...
good to know you had fun ... always trying to keep my reader entertained :)
So apparently, according to my last blog post, I write like Chuck Palahniuk. :S I'm wondering if that's a compliment to me or an insult to Chuck Palahniuk.
shaf ::
May be a bit of both ... :P
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