Writing style meme

[makeste]

Taken from ekmisao and several others!

I write like
J. K. Rowling

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I used Down the Stairs to start out with, since it was one of my more recent(...ish) fics, and the longest one I've done. I AM INCREDIBLY HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS. I freaking love Rowling, okay.

So then I fed it some more fics just for kicks and I got hilariously varied results that included H.P. Lovecraft, Margaret Atwood, Chuck Palahniuk (twice), Douglas Adams, and James Joyce.

But by far the best result was when I tried First Impressions, my GokuHaru fic. And got this.

I write like
Edgar Allan Poe

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

XDDDDDD

THIS MEME MAKES ME WANT TO WRITE MORE THINGS, I THINK I WILL GO TRY THAT.

Comments

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

LMFAO I USED A STEAMPUNK STORY FOR THIS AND I GOT STEPHEN KING WTF

[makeste.livejournal.com]

THIS MEME IS TRULY AMAZING.

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

YES IT IS I AM OFF TO TRY MORE AND SEE WHAT I GET LOL LOL LOL.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Apparently there are over 40 authors in the database, so there are potentially lots of interesting results.

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

Oooooh coool! I wish I wrote more! ):

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Well, you can always try feeding it regular old LJ posts, too. Actually, I should try that...

EDIT: I got Chuck Palahniuk like a billion times, and I also got Stephen King, Dan Brown, and bizarrely, Isaac Asimov.

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

LOL but my LJ posts are kinda stupid. 8D;; I don't even think it even resembles anything any author wrote!

And I got Stephen King and Dan Brown three times, Vladimir Nabokov twice and J.K Rowling once. Which is funny because I religiously read the Harry Potter series LOL.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Psssh, your posts aren't stupid. AND CERTAINLY NO DUMBER THAN ANY OF MINE. I wonder if it takes into account how many times I post the phrases "OH MY GOD" and "HOLY SHIT EPIC." XD

That seems a pretty respectable list right there, aside from Brown. Then again, anyone whose books have sold 80 million+ copies deserves a little respect, I suppose. With the possible exceptions of Orson Scott Card and Stephenie Meyer.

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

LOL LOL XD

AND OH GOD STEPHANIE MEYER. BU No words can convey how much I hate her for taking a crap on literature!

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

I copied some random text from one of my entries and got Stephen King XD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Judging by my flist, approximately 90% of fandom scored King as well. Which begs the question... does Stephen King write like everybody, or does everybody write like Stephen King??

[aroundight.livejournal.com]

I put one of my stories in and got Dan Brown.

I wanted to cry. D:



(After that I got Tolstoy which makes me much, much happier. Dan Brown, wtffff)

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I think they just threw Dan Brown in there to fuck with people. XD

Tolstoy is a much happier result, though. The guy who made the app says he might do a version 2.0 that gives more info in the results, so that's cool. It would be nice to know why the test scores the way it does.

[dame-batsie.livejournal.com]

I tried this with a bunch of different fics. And the breakdown was interesting:

Chuck Palahniuk - 7
Dan Brown - 4
James Joyce/Isaac Asimov/Margaret Atwood - 2
Raymond Chandler/Stephen King/H.P. Lovecraft/Rudyard Kipling - 1

Haven't read Palahniuk's or Brown's stuff but I feel like I should just to see...

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Haha, your results are as varied as mine.

Palahniuk and Brown are the minds behind Fight Club and The DaVinci Code, respectively. I've read the latter and a couple of Brown's other books; he gets a lot of hate, but he's not too bad, really; his main problem is that he keeps writing the same basic plot over and over again. XD Palahniuk's pretty awesome, though. Of course, I say this having only seen the film version of FC (I've skimmed the book, but never actually picked it up).

[kat8cha.livejournal.com]

Did you say the word 'MAGIC'?

[makeste.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I really don't know what it was. My sneaking suspicion is that I use too many adverbs.

[teruame.livejournal.com]

I got Bram Stoker. XDDD Little wonder why I feel so...gothic at times with my writing. :3

[makeste.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Bram fucking Stoker? COOLEST RESULT YET. :O

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

lolll GokuHaru gothic romance XDD and she came to me/ dressed in black feathers/ Miura Haru/ in my kingdom by the sea/ and I tried to blow her up/ but a wall stopped me

this thing is soo addictive @_@ lol

Chuck Palahniuk: 7
James Joyce: 3
Dan Brown: 2
Steven King, H.P Lovecraft, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison: 1
AND
Arthur Conan Doyle: 1! and this was when I put in a passage of Dino touching himself ahahaha oh dear, Watson.
And once I got Charles Dickens for one half of a fic and James Fenimore Cooper for the other half but when I combined them I got Margaret Atwood...

I think I am having way too much fun, help me.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Oh my God that poem, I want to like. Make love to it or something. XD

MAN EVERYONE WRITES LIKE FIGHT CLUB APPARENTLY. Interesting to see some of the other names there. IF YOU KEEP IT UP MAYBE WE CAN DISCOVER THEM ALL!

Arthur Conan Doyle: 1! and this was when I put in a passage of Dino touching himself ahahaha oh dear, Watson.

sldkfjasldkjl MYSTERIES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES REVEALED: THE SECRETS YOU NEVER KNEW!

This thing just keeps getting better. :O

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

ffff
'Hahi,' said she/ 'How dare you try to kill me?'/ does she realizes that she/ is dressed like a freaking bumblebee?
xD oh god I could go forever

Haha, if we are trying to discover them all then so far we have, in no particular order:

1 Chuck Palahniuk
2 Steven King
3 James Joyce
4 William Shakespeare
5 Edgar Allen Poe
6 Arthur Conan Doyle
7 James Fenimore Cooper
8 Dan Brown
9 Margaret Atwood
10 Charles Dickens
11 H.P. Lovecraft
12 Isaac Asimov
13 George Orwell
14 Kurt Vonnegut
15 Harry Harrison
16 Bram Stoker
17 J.K. Rowling
18 Rudyard Kipling
19 Raymond Chandler
20 Vladimir Nabokov
21 Douglas Adams

DUDE THAT IS LIKE ONLY AROUND HALF OF THE ALLEGED >40 LIST D:

[makeste.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE KILLING ME HERE omg cannot stop laughing. XO

Wow, so many. Okay, and add to that:

22 David Foster Wallace
23 Leo Tolstoy
24 Jack London
25 Daniel Defoe
26 Jonathan Swift
27 Agatha Christie
28 Jane Austen
29 P.G. Wodehouse
30 J.D. Salinger
31 Lewis Carroll
32 Mark Twain
33 Arthur C. Clark
34 Ursula K. Le Guin
35 Haruki Murakami

So a little more than three-quarters of the way there. o/

ETA: lol I keep adding in new ones. Now that the thing's been around for a few days, a lot more of the results are showing up on various blogs.