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I Write Like...website analyzes your writing style!

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  • #32
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,409 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    David Foster Wallace (never even heard of him) and Dan Brown (*shudders*).


  • #33
    deman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    I write like

    test 1 - Kurt Vonnegut
    test 2 - Kurt Vonnegut


  • #34
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Oryx wrote: »
    My last paragraph for bad romance, which by the way, is terrible, was compared to Kurt Vonnegut, whoever he is.

    :eek:

    To be honest, while that randomiser is fun, it's just that. I wouldn't take it with more than a very large pinch of salt. Everyone here seems to have got a male author as their literary alter-ego, which seems odd to me.


  • #35
    davesneddon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭davesneddon


    I got Cory Doctorow - anyone heard of him??!


  • #36
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    Everyone here seems to have got a male author as their literary alter-ego, which seems odd to me.

    A couple of people got Stephanie Meyer.


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  • #37
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    davesneddon wrote: »
    I got Cory Doctorow - anyone heard of him??!

    He writes articles for Boing Boing and (I think) the Guardian. Didn't know he wrote fiction. Wiki.


  • #38
    storm2811
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    davesneddon wrote: »
    I got Cory Doctorow - anyone heard of him??!

    I just started putting in random song lyrics,put in Pokerface lyrics and got him.:pac:

    Put in Nothing Else Matters lyrics and got Bram Stoker!


  • #39
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    iguana wrote: »
    A couple of people got Stephanie Meyer.

    Yes, but only one person here got Meyer only - everyone else got Meyer and a number of men. They say that women and men have very different writing styles, which is why I find that odd.


  • #40
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    They say that women and men have very different writing styles, which is why I find that odd.

    What is considered to be the main difference in styles between women and men? Just curious.


  • #41
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Linky


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  • #42
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    Linky

    Interesting article!

    David Lodge's point was also very valid - that most fiction writers attempt to portray the mindset of the opposite sex at some point - it would be interesting to see which gender was considered more successful at that...a sort of double-blind study...there's probably a PhD student working on the algorithms as we speak :)


  • #43
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I tried the gender genie and for the two passages centring on a female character it guessed I was a female writer and for the two featuring more male characters it guessed I was a dude. Something not very scientific at all in that algorithm I reckon!


  • #44
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I tried the gender genie and for the two passages centring on a female character it guessed I was a female writer and for the two featuring more male characters it guessed I was a dude. Something not very scientific at all in that algorithm I reckon!

    I've just done the same experiment and got the same results. Female for a passage about a female character, male for a passage about a male character.


  • #45
    baltimore sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    I got James Joyce :eek::)

    I've read all his stuff but didn't think he was an influence, I loved Portrait.... but couldn't stand Ulysses, I know, sorry, I'm a freak for not liking Ulysses.
    anyway sure, it's only a bit of craic and if it gives some inspiration to some writers then sure why the hell not


  • #46
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    I write like...

    Dan Brown.


  • #47
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Hm. Seems the thing might be a vanity publisher's scam. Oh well, fun while it lasted.


  • #48
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Was it? I thought it was complete rubbish while it lasted :D


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