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I got the same one BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 26/10/2010 12:28:35 AM
...David Foster Wallace in my work emails, apparently. Whoever that is.

Use this site to paste some of your writing and it will tell you who you write like... special huh? I'm going to get it to analyse my unpublished novel, next; I'm expecting to write like Yeats in that.

Has this been done on here before? If it has I apologise - I did a search but it didn't come up so ner!

Used text from a scientific article. I wonder if he isn't the only writer they know about.
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"I write like..." Two Wongs - 26/10/2010 12:13:04 AM 1264 Views
Kurt Vonnegut...whoever he is. *NM* Wibble - 26/10/2010 12:27:06 AM 330 Views
Wait, really? BlackAdder - 26/10/2010 12:30:26 AM 891 Views
I got the same one BlackAdder - 26/10/2010 12:28:35 AM 834 Views
apparently I also write like David Foster Wallace *NM* damookster - 26/10/2010 12:45:19 AM 327 Views
also like Stephen King and Cory Doctorow *NM* damookster - 26/10/2010 03:23:46 AM 345 Views
I have alternatively gotten ... Darth_Katie - 26/10/2010 01:22:27 AM 846 Views
...I put in a steampunky fantasy story I've been playing with and got H.P. Lovecraft. Ghavrel - 26/10/2010 01:35:15 AM 785 Views
I got Carrot Top. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 26/10/2010 01:39:15 AM 325 Views
Re: Hahaha. *NM* Gaps - 26/10/2010 02:02:23 AM 773 Views
Stephanie Myer, Bram Stoker, Stephen King and Cory Doctorow Tashmere - 26/10/2010 02:00:40 AM 780 Views
That is because it is a random generator... draggie - 26/10/2010 03:17:02 AM 857 Views
It sounds like they have a limited list of writers to choose from as well. Tashmere - 27/10/2010 01:13:10 AM 688 Views
Dan Brown, Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, Ursula Le Guin, and Arthur Clarke... Jedi Wolf Sister - 26/10/2010 03:26:28 AM 927 Views
Dan Brown twice? damookster - 26/10/2010 03:28:13 AM 861 Views
Yes... Jedi Wolf Sister - 26/10/2010 07:57:35 PM 811 Views
The differing responses have me curious... Jedi Wolf Sister - 27/10/2010 02:23:21 AM 698 Views
Cory Doctorow, whoever that is *NM* ironclad - 26/10/2010 10:10:23 AM 333 Views
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom draggie - 26/10/2010 04:25:56 PM 866 Views
and then read Little Brother. Michael - 26/10/2010 04:29:11 PM 738 Views
Oh, interesting! Genre? *NM* ironclad - 26/10/2010 08:30:21 PM 348 Views
Tell you what, I'll post a review. Michael - 28/10/2010 10:40:10 AM 1072 Views
oh! draggie - 29/10/2010 07:08:41 AM 809 Views
Cory Doctorow *NM* StarrBecca - 26/10/2010 01:35:36 PM 307 Views
That really is awesome! And it is definitely not random... Michael - 26/10/2010 04:23:36 PM 818 Views
I did something like that. Gher - 26/10/2010 08:16:22 PM 750 Views
Goethe's Faustus returned Pj Wodehouse *NM* Stephen - 27/10/2010 01:21:29 AM 307 Views
I like that. Michael - 03/11/2010 09:26:21 AM 808 Views
Mark Twain *NM* Cheryl - 26/10/2010 04:26:01 PM 333 Views
Corey Feldman? Tigr - 26/10/2010 05:15:58 PM 842 Views
Did you submit the script for the third Lost Boys movie? *NM* TaskmasterJack - 27/10/2010 02:04:16 AM 344 Views
Nope. Dream A Little Dream 3. *NM* Tigr - 27/10/2010 06:48:57 PM 332 Views
It's funny, I almost made a Dream a Little Dream joke instead of a Lost Boys one. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 27/10/2010 11:18:07 PM 318 Views
I pasted a journal entry and got Edgar Allan Poe. (beat.) - 26/10/2010 08:23:58 PM 804 Views
I did two tests on two different chapters of one of my stories on ff.net... vandevere - 26/10/2010 10:35:36 PM 746 Views
I write like William Gibson. Rebekah - 26/10/2010 11:03:08 PM 764 Views
Wongers, your smiley terrifies me. *NM* Rebekah - 26/10/2010 11:16:04 PM 329 Views
It is so fitting, though... It just says "wongers"... Two Wongs - 27/10/2010 12:59:55 PM 759 Views
I write like H.P. Lovecraft and Margaret Atwood. *NM* Nate - 26/10/2010 11:17:53 PM 342 Views
That was with very recent pieces. Older ones got me J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahniuk. *NM* Nate - 26/10/2010 11:21:22 PM 366 Views
Arthur C Clarke Stephen - 27/10/2010 12:47:46 AM 738 Views
With a fiction piece I got Stephen King *NM* Stephen - 27/10/2010 01:09:07 AM 366 Views
Douglas Adams, that might actually be valid, he's the first fiction author I read, on the other hand Isaac - 27/10/2010 01:13:45 PM 692 Views
Hm. Margaret Atwood nossy - 27/10/2010 03:55:50 PM 773 Views
Punch drunk monkey *NM* random thoughts - 27/10/2010 08:11:14 PM 318 Views
my emails are like H.P Lovecraft apparently O.O LadyLorraine - 27/10/2010 09:50:00 PM 763 Views
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