viv Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Analyze your writing I write like Stephen King... Who do you write like?
Johnathan Colourfield Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 I put in two stories and got different results Vladmir Nabokov and Dan Brown
viv Posted July 13, 2010 Author Posted July 13, 2010 On 7/13/2010 at 8:37 PM, Johnathan Colourfield said: I put in two stories and got different results Vladmir Nabokov and Dan Brown I did also, but then I put one of my blogs in because I feel like that's my actual voice as opposed to whatever voice I'm trying to create, and it came up with Stephen King again so I went with that.
Site Administrator Graeme Posted July 13, 2010 Site Administrator Posted July 13, 2010 I put in four different short story excerpts, and got four different authors. I presume that means I'm schizophrenic....
Jack Frost Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 On 7/13/2010 at 9:38 PM, Graeme said: I put in four different short story excerpts, and got four different authors. I presume that means I'm schizophrenic.... I put in five excerpts from a couple chapters and I got: Dan Brown (twice), Vladimir Nabokov, Bram Stoker, Stephen King. I'm a schizo too I suppose.
gardentuber Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 (edited) Interesting... or not! I uploaded around 175 words, four separate excerpts and was analyzed as three different writers. If I uploaded dialog, I was Kurt Vonnegut (2 times). If I uploaded description, I was Steven King. If I uploaded a mix, I was Dan Brown. Who's Dan Brown? edit: Dan Brown -- oh, him -- never mind-- Edited July 13, 2010 by gardentuber
hh5 Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 I put different portions of my new story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce (three) Dan Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk -- Kenny and Peter Stephen King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce ---Short Story J K Rowling Daniel Defoe Dan Brown Stephen King James_Joyce -- Anthologies Dan Brown Stephen King
Tomas Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Talk about schizophrenic. I put in 7 different entries from my journal and got the following: 1. Edgar Allen Poe 2. Mark Twain 3. Kurt Vonnegut 4. & 5. Margaret Atwood 6. Leo Tolstoy 7. Vladimir Nabokov Everything that I have written are like short entries in a journal. All non-fiction. As hard as I've tried, I've never been able to write fiction. I get these ideas and when I try to expand them into a story, they never seem to go anywhere and then just disappear.
PrivateTim Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 (edited) Ogden Nash. Oh wait.... I didn't see the quiz. I did four different stories and two were Stephen King, one James Joyce and one Dan Brown. I'd love to think I write like James Joyce. Edited July 14, 2010 by PrivateTim
PrivateTim Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 On 7/13/2010 at 11:30 PM, gardentuber said: Interesting... or not! I uploaded around 175 words, four separate excerpts and was analyzed as three different writers. If I uploaded dialog, I was Kurt Vonnegut (2 times). If I uploaded description, I was Steven King. If I uploaded a mix, I was Dan Brown. Who's Dan Brown? edit: Dan Brown -- oh, him -- never mind-- Exactly..... Da Vinci, Angels & Demons....
glomph Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Does this just assign some writer's name at random? I tried it four times (different samples) and came up with Stephen King, James Joyce, Dan Brown, and Chuck Palahniuk.
C James Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 I'm beginning to think this is psudo random (it repeats its results for a given piece of text but the actual product seems thematically inconsistent. Going through the prologue for my current story section by section, I get, in order; Robert Louis Stevenson H.P. Lovecraft Dan Brown H.P Lovecraft Stephen King James Joyce H.G. Wells H.P. Lovecraft The first chapter gives me P. G. Wodehouse, though the next few give me Dan Brown. The prologue for another of my stories came back with Isac Asimov, and the first chapter Raymond Chandler In fairness, I do vary style to suit the situation, but I think these results are rather inaccurate, but good for a smile. Thanks Viv. .
Forty-Two Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 On 7/14/2010 at 2:29 AM, hh5 said: good question would dan brown ring dan brown etc etc I thought this too so I copied and pasted some Dan Brown text and got back: Dan Brown. Then I copied and pasted some Douglas Adams text and got back: Dan Brown. Lol, I think this thing is flawed. It did return Stephen King for Stephen King quotes though, then I got bored and stopped testing it:P
Former Member Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Funny this must be a new popular thing. On my twitter tonight a number of writers in my publishers house were posting their supposed "writing style". I didn't take the test/questionnaire. I know the other writers who have influenced by writing, but who I write like...? Unless they have my brain and I theirs, don't think it's so except in the most general of ways, though a basic template might be similar. A P.S. after reading some other posts, yes, the results kept switching overall. Having someone set up a "quiz" format and putting results in based on answers might seem exact and nice, but I don't think it's anything should be taken as fact because it is slated to give you back only certain answers the quiz's creator might be familar with. Don't limit yourself, be totally yourself ;-)
viv Posted July 14, 2010 Author 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.
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