Former Member Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 It's not really a quiz. It's just something that analyzes their word usage and then yours, based on the text you provide, which is why everyone keeps getting varied answers. I might use different words and expressions when a story is set in the country, for example, than when it's invlving Navy Seals undercover. I just thought it was interesting and fun to see. Sorry I didn't use the right word in making my reply. I make the comment I did because the writers at my publisher were going through this tonight.. Dreamspinner Press. I know what the "questionaire", quiz, or whatever ever anyone chooses to call it was about. The same as I said before, because on what you provided, the results are supplied based on the novelists, writers, or authors they have in their database with which to compare a person's answers to, therefore tell them what their writing style is like. It just gives you a very, very broad pop-up of what your writing style might be. I said that, but in no way suggested it wasn't interesting or fun, which it was, but just not to take it as exact or fact.
Tristan Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Yay JK Rowling! Guess I should keep going might make millions
Maken Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 I write like Dan Brown, Stephen King, J. D. Salinger and J. K. Rowling. And this is from four different scenes of four different stories. Maybe my writing style varies according to the tale I
Riley Jericho Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 I turned out to be James Joyce! ........ who's that?
Hamen Cheese Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 Hmm... It returned Usula K. Le Guin for my story Adamagika (based on three released chapters). Ian Flemming for Numbers on the Wall and James Joyce for Smoking is Gay. Damn, I write like old people... lol
Site Administrator wildone Posted July 15, 2010 Site Administrator Posted July 15, 2010 :blink: David Foster Wallace :blink: Who is he and how did he steal my writing style ?
Hylas Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 First Result:David Foster Wallace Second Result: The same Third result: Chuck Palahniuk I've never read any of them. :| And Wallace apparently committed suicide. That's bad right?
Krista Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 Stephenie Meyer :wacko: Dan Brown And, P. G. Wodehouse - I have no idea who that is...
Former Member Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 (edited) 1) Cory Doctorow 2) Oscar Wilde 3) Shakespeare 4) Dan Brown 5) Issac Asimov 6) Dan Brown 7) Dan Brown 8) David Foster Wallace 9) David Foster Wallace Note: 2-6 are from the same text, and 8-9 are from the same text...so there's at least some consistency in my writing style Oh, and P.G.Wodehouse was a pre-war English novellist, playwright and all-round satirist Edited July 26, 2010 by Nikolai
Eros Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 Well, I got varied answers depending on the writing. These are my results: Charles Dickens David Foster Wallace Dan Brown Arthur Conan Doyle Cory Doctorow H.P. Lovecraft Stephen King Stephenie Meyer
Linxe Termoil Posted August 2, 2010 Posted August 2, 2010 Okay, so I went and cut and pasted each chapter from each story and these are the results I got in return. Spider Webs 1) Cory Doctorow, 2) J.D. Salinger, 3) William Gibson, 4) J.K. Rowling, 5) David Foster Wallace, 6) William Gibson The only person I've heard of up there is J.K. Rowling Sword Sworn 1) James Joyce 2) James Joyce 3) James Joyce 4) James Joyce Sunny's Angel 1-6 was Margaret Mitchel Like I said, the only person I've ever heard of was J.K. Rowling. who are these people?
ConcreteHeart Posted August 2, 2010 Posted August 2, 2010 (edited) Linxe beat me to William Gibson, not that I have ever read any. I guess we write alike. Edit: I put in an unfinished story and came up with "Annie Rice." I assume it meant Anne Rice, but with that error the results mean absolutely nothing. What a stupid error to make. Edited August 2, 2010 by ConcreteHeart
Rizan Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 I got Charles Dickens, three times, with two parts of a chapter from two different stories, and one from an old blog post. I think that means I win. -grins- I also got several other authors along the way, including Arthur Clarke and some dude named David Foster Wallace, but I did eventually hit Dickens three times. I was actually hoping for Poe; like, I *really* wanted Poe, but I can live with Dickens.
Guest Wyndham Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Apparently I write like Stephanie Meyer - of Twilight fame (or notoriety...) - at least for chapter 1 of The River Boys. In chapters 2, 3 and 5, apparently I write like Annie Rice - Author of Interview With The Vampire In chapter 4, I write like Cory Doctorow - Little Brother etc mmmm
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