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I've stumbled across this and figured it would be a fun thing to share with the forum...type a few sentences or paste something of yours and it tells you what author you write like. I've pasted several different paragraphs of mine and I write most like Dan Brown followed by Mario Puzo.

Who do you write like?

P.S. apparently this post is written like Stephen King

OH NOOOOO. I write like Dan Brown!


Second opinion, and probably more accurate, is William Gibson.

I copy and pasted a post I just made in the Song of Ice and Fire thread, and apparently it was written like Ray Bradbury.

And this post is written like Stephen King as well.

Dan Brown. I...I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about this.

I thought the same when Dan Brown popped up for the first 2 pasted paragraphs but then I remembered that his writings started this whole movement and had people reading who've never held a book before so I took it as a good thing.

Mary Shelly. I've done this test a few times in the past and it's one of the more consistent results. So yay? I can't remember the other at this moment.

I got David Foster Wallace.... which pretty much means I win the entire thread.

Kurt Vonegut, someone I've never heard of.

My posts tend to be rated differently. So it's almost like I have my actual "writing style" as used in my book, and then my forum writing style.

Hehe, Instead of my RP post, I tried my natural discussion writing to see if there was any difference in style and I got George Orwell.

I got Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for my forum post.

ha I'm waiting to see if someone gets Kafka or Faulkner without copying their work...If someone gets Kafka then I will have to ask for them to share what they pasted there as proof it's their own words.

Take it as a compliment

It picked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown for me at first too, but then I tried two longer pieces of text and got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow both times.

EDIT: Oh crap, decided to try a 4th time and got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer

EDIT2: A 5th time and Cory Doctorow again. I guess that settles it

William Shakespeare.

What.

Okay, I thought I would try my most recent posted topic/post and one from a a year or two ago (Because, you know, maturity and all ):

Most recent: Margaret Atwood

Year ago: Cory Doctorow

Never heard of them

I used this text I wrote in an email to my older brother:

I got Kurt Vonnegut, which is interesting because I've heard of his stuff before and have been interested in reading Slaughterhouse-Five in particular for a long time.

EDIT: Just about everything of mine that I put into this thing gives me Kurt Vonnegut. Interesting...

Pft. Can you believe I got Dan Brown for this masterpiece? http://i.imgur.com/l3kkGTM.png

... Are you sure it's not Dan Brown and Stephen King Who write like pretty much anyone who's not been paying attention ?

haha man I needed that laugh, thanks. Don't feel too bad though, I actually got J.K Rowling for 1 of my entries and it wasn't something written while on the toilet

Apparently most of us are so/so fiction writers. http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/04/walking-dead-season-3-5.jpg.

You might've done better if you didn't capitalize the W in "When" after that ellipsis.

stephen king apparently, i honestly don't take much from this. it would be more interesting if it gave some kind of comparison that could add "I write like X because"

Redid the thing and got Arthur Clarke, my input was one of my opening posts to a thread I made a while back about material satisfaction.

Damn. That's a bad habit.

Jonathan Swift? I am not sure what to take away from that...

David Foster Wallace

Cory Doctorow

Vladimir Nabokov Mordin