I write like
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
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Confinement
Being confined indoors most of the day, just the four of us, is reminding me of the days when my children were wee and most of our weekends ...
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Deborah, who still doesn't have a blog, sent me some photographs of her place for posting "to make everyone else feel better about...
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I spend far too much time reading blogs. I’m sure you all agree it’s a shameful, compulsive disorder. So I’m cutting down. I’m going on a dr...
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Being confined indoors most of the day, just the four of us, is reminding me of the days when my children were wee and most of our weekends ...
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I tried it for 3 posts and got 3 different responses: J K Rowling, Stephen King, and someone I didn't recognize and now forget.
I had the same experience. My post about reading, including mention of Nabakov, came up with me writing like Nabokov. The one about technology was like Cory Doctorow, and one about my vacation was supposedly like Stephen King! I then tried it with part of a chapter of a novel I am writing, and it came up Jack London!
Obviously we don't these tests to really find out whose writing is most like ours, but I would be curious to learn how they set this up. It is obviously partly theme/vocabulary but I wonder what else is involved.
Oh well... It is fun no matter what!
I think it must be a pretty crude algorithm!
I got James Joyce. Can't be very clever can it? I suspect that it's all to do with getting you to buy the Course. How cynical is that?
Can't be bothered to sign in so will appear as Anonymous but I'm another Lesley.
According to this, I’m variously:
Dan Brown ( no-no-no! )
Cory Doctorow ( never heard of this author but might check them out )
James Joyce ( that must’ve been the exerpt with a lot of swearing)
Leo Tolstoy ( that must’ve been the verrrrrry long extract )
Margaret Atwood ( quite pleased about that one )
David Foster Wallace ( someone else I haven’t met )
And Stephen King ( I don't think I’ve ever read on of his books - but he certainly sells plenty )
oooh ....scurries off
sheesh! I gave it 200 pages and it broke.
I guess I write like me....
:-)
Ok you got David Foster Wallace. So I tried some of my lucid prose, and guess what: David Foster Wallace. Now I'm suspicious. So I plugged in an excerpt from that very hilarious story "A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again" buy David Foster Wallace, and guess who he writes like?
Stephen King.
Obviously.
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