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!!!

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.

[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.

[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.