Who Do You Write Like

I Write Like

After using the tool a few times on an assortment of blog posts and a few letters I write most like - drum roll please

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David Foster Wallace (I needed to Google him ). I was also found to write like Daniel Defoe and Kurt Vonnegut. Once for each.

I shortly expect to be sued by each of their estates for damaging their reputations

According to my most recent blog post (which I really should update), I write like Ian Fleming.

How oddly appropriate.

My most recent blog post equals I write like Chuck Palahniuk.

I prefer he writes like me.
But, whatever.

According to that, I write like David Foster Wallace (which didn't exactly surprise me).

What did surprise me is that when I typed in an actual passage from a David Foster Wallace book, it said I wrote like Ursula K. Le Guin.

If you copy-and-paste text from that website itself, it says you write like Stephanie Meyer.

I have no idea what metric it uses.

IDGAS said:
I Write Like

Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.

Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).

After using the tool a few times on an assortment of blog posts and a few letters I write most like - drum roll please

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

David Foster Wallace (I needed to Google him ). I was also found to write like Daniel Defoe and Kurt Vonnegut. Once for each.

I shortly expect to be sued by each of their estates for damaging their reputations

I highly recommend DFW's Infinite Jest.

Nabokov for the win.

Dan Brown

That's just... fuck you, I Write Like. Words can hurt, y'know.

Me too.

Add me to the I write like David Foster Wallace list.

David Foster Wallace when I tried one of my film reviews.

However, when I posted an OLD blog post (old like, 2003), it came up with Dan Brown.
And then I threw up in my mouth a little.

I put in a longer blog. I am more of a writer like Vladimir Nabokov.

I tested it with snippets from a Dan Brown book from a review that was comparing his writing with writing from pulp porn authors. Dan Brown did in fact come up with Dan Brown. Although one of the porn authors got Stephen King. I got David Foster Wallace.

well, according to this joke,

means I write like William Shakespeare. I am skeptical of this site.

ha ha

ha ha, my most recent blog, which is short and about nothing means I write like HP Lovecraft, apparently.
You didn't know that my nothingness was a sign of ancient evil, did you?

My guess is MD5.

I got HPL too.

Me.

David Foster Wallace, Lewis Carrol, Kurt Vonnegut and...Chuck P.
Could be worse I guess.

Douglas Adams

Okay, it's not a hash, and it's not just a distribution of word lengths. When I paste in some boilerplate from the gmail home page, I get Arthur Conan Doyle. When I rot13 that, I get Dan Brown (which could be marginally amusing if I were 5 years old).