I write like a schizophrenic

[tamaranth]

Analyze your writing style

Apparently I don't write like anyone in particular. Analysis of five different stories came up with Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Chuck Palahniuk and James Joyce.

Incidentally, has anyone scored a female writer? Or don't women have writing styles?

Comments

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

These (http://ajshepherd.livejournal.com/916017.html) posts (http://ajshepherd.livejournal.com/916837.html) got me Margaret Atwood.

Maybe that means they're science fiction but I'm in denial about it.
My HDR post comes out as Dan Brown. Am not amused!!!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I also got Margaret Atwood, but for some pages from a audit of blood testing procedures in an Austrian hospital, translated from the rather ponderous German. As science fiction, I suppose it scores 1 out of two...

For a story, I got Mark Twain.

right there with you on the schizophrenia *g*

[lj_stowaway]

I used chunks of various stories and got Jane Austen (\o/), Vladimir Nabokov, Daniel Defoe, H.P. Lovecraft (wtf?) and Charles Dickens. I may go back and try it with larger samples to see if that changes the results.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Well, my blog entry was PG Wodehouse, but my fiction is Orwellian. (One does one's humble best!)

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think the people behind this have put in so many different famous writers whose styles aren't that far apart that there is very little discrimination possible.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's a very male-centred, very mainstream, selection and the criteria they use seem to be very basic.

[shinysparkly.livejournal.com]

Most of my slash came back as Stephen King. o.O

I did get Margaret Atwood for one article I wrote for a friend's blog.

Also Dan Brown, Palahniuk, Joyce, Bram Stoker (some poetry from long ago) and Raymond Chandler for the Pink Viggo epic 'Twee Slut'.

My LOTR FPS (Elrond/Isildur) got JRR Tolkein which made me giggle.

I don't think it's very sophisticated

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got Margaret Atwood for a post which mentioned the word female once.

Re: I don't think it's very sophisticated

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

What happens if you change the word to 'male' and rerun it?

[dharma-slut.livejournal.com]

I'm betting it goes by keywords.

I've gotten Dan Brown for some Motorcycle Dyke conversation,(I have never read DB so I don't know) Steven King for a young transwoman at a leather event (Cage?), HP Lovecraft for demons fighting and then fucking, (The word "ichor," I assume) and James Joyce for a bit of Jack/Jack/Jamie.

Someone said she entered"thee thee thee thee" and got Shakespeare.