I Write Like

[Ferris Macklin]

Okay. Guys. I've noticed this about myself, maybe you have too. When I write different chars, I sometimes write differently. Not as much in the last few years, but sometimes. I use different phrasing, different vocabulary, different sentence structure. Not just for what they say, but how I describe what's going on, what they're doing.

So there's a site called 'I Write Like' and it takes a sample of your writing and then tells you which author in its banks your sample most resembles. The first time I did it, I had to enter five different posts from five different chars before I got someone I'd read, but I got a different author for every post. That intrigued me.

TL;DR - enter a post from one of your chars, link to it if you want so we can see what you used. And then post which author you got! Unfortunately the coding here won't allow for the badges, but you can still tell us who you got.

Here, I'll start:

The post I entered: Ferris's very first post, the opener from I Come Bearing Gifts.

Result: I Write Like Chuck Palahniuk - he wrote Fight Club.

Now you guys: I Write Like

[Devon Wentsworth]

The post I entered was Devon's latest post in Deep Fried Delicacies, purely because I still had it open in Word.

Result: I write like Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote Sherlock Holmes. You cannot understand just how much that made me squee.

[Deleted]

Lol. I used my first post from Stalking You.

Result: I write like Stephen King - In case you don't know, he wrote The Stand, The Shining, and It.

I tried again using my first post from I Think I Broke It.

Result: I write like Oscar Wilde

Whoo! The Importance of Being Earnest is one of my favorite plays! ><

That said, I am perfectly happy with both of these results.

[Nicholas Kells]

Fun fun! I decided to do all my chars and see what I get.

Ricio

From Happy Jack
Results - I Write Like Stephen King

Stefan

From Sparrow
Results - I Write Like Rudyard Kipling

Harmony

From I'm Not a Good Influence
Results - I write like J.D. Salinger

Joseph

From Office Hours
Results - I Write Like Dan Brown

Nick

From Occupy Pilot Ridge
Results - I Write Like Gertrude Stein

[Kamillia Engel]

I did this for my characters! It's pretty cool.

Kam: From Desperate - I write like Cory Doctorow (I do not know who this person is..)
From A bunny thing happened - I write like Stephen King

Mia: From Your guardian angel - I write like Stephen King

Hay-lin: From Reunited - I write like Stephen King
From Make your mark - I write like Stephenie Meyer


I'm actually pretty surprised by how consistent my writing it...

[Vincent Meian]

Vincent
Starting Out: Mandatory and Willing - Writes Like: David Foster Wallace
Currently: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Writes Like: James Joyce


More to come. :3

[Jay Downs]

Jay Downs: From That Icy Hot Feeling - Writes like: James Joyce

[Erik Stewart]

I WRITE LIKE EDGAR ALLEN POE U GUYS
iwl.me/b/66982063
(i dont know how to do the URL thing lol)

[Astley Pyatt]

Astley's totals:
Cory Doctorow - 10 ; J.D. Salinger - 6 ; Stephanie Meyer - 6
Stephen King - 5 ; Agatha Chrisite - 5 ; Chuck Palahniuk - 3
H.P. Lovecraft - 2 ; Jane Austen - 2 ; Oscar Wilde - 2
William Shakespeare - 2 ; Dan Brown - 2 ; James Joyce - 1
David Foster Wallace - 1 ; Margaret Mitchell - 1 ; Gertrude Stein - 1
Neil Gaiman - 1

Noa's totals:
Jack London - 12 ; Cory Doctorow - 10 ; William Gibson - 3
Vladimir Nabokov - 2 ; Anne Rice - 2 ; Stephanie Meyer - 2
J.D. Salinger - 1 ; Chuck Palahniuk - 1 ; H.P. Lovecraft - 1
L. Frank Baum - 1 ; David Foster Wallace - 1

Peyton's totals:
Stephanie Meyer - 6 ; Cory Doctorow - 5 ; Douglas Adams - 2
J.D. Salinger - 2 ; William Gibson - 2 ; Stephen King - 2
Dan Brown - 1

My overall totals:
Cory Doctorow - 25 ; Stephanie Meyer - 14 ; Jack London - 12
J.D. Salinger - 9 ; Stephen King - 7 ; Agatha Chrisite - 5
William Gibson - 5 ; Chuck Palahniuk - 4 ; H.P. Lovecraft - 3
Dan Brown - 3 ; Vladimir Nabokov - 2 ; Douglas Adams - 2
Jane Austen - 2 ; Oscar Wilde - 2 ; William Shakespeare - 2
David Foster Wallace - 2 ; Anne Rice - 2 ; Neil Gaiman - 1
Gertrude Stein - 1 ; James Joyce - 1 ; L. Frank Baum - 1
Margaret Mitchell - 1

(for way too much more info)

[Ferris Macklin]

Putting my other guys in with their first posts.

Clement's first post in Overly Warm Welcome - I Write Like George Orwell. He wrote Animal Farm and 1984.

Tomer's first post in Ode to Summer - I Write Like Cory Doctorow. He wrote Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Little Brother.

Mike's first post in Grounded - I Write Like P.G. Wodehouse. He wrote the Jeeves and Wooster series.

[Georgina Speer]

All of the posts that I "tested" were from the same thread, just to see how much my writing varies.

The thread is Pranktastic, although its not turning out to be as fun and happy as the name sounds :L

Post 1: I Write Like William Shakespeare
(What the actual hell? that's so cool!)

Post 2: I Write Like Cory Doctorow
(He's a science fiction author that I've never heard of )

Post 3: I Write Like Stephanie Meyer
(So I have the ability to write about sparkly vampires. Brilliant.)

Post 4: I Write Like J. D. Salinger
(The guy who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, apparently. I'm content with that )

Post 5: I Write Like Anne Rice
(Wikipedia says she writes Gothic fiction, and I see a lot of vampires. Maybe I should consider that... nah who am I kidding xD)

Post 6: I Write Like Stephen King
(YES GET IN THERE)

Post 7: I Write Like Stephen King
(ON A ROLL! DOUBLE WHAMMY OF KING! (That sounds wrong in so many ways.))

Post 8: I Write Like J. D. Salinger
(Back to the Catcher in the Rye guy )

Post 9: I Write Like Dan Brown
(OMG THIS IS AMAZING)

Post 10: I Write Like Cory Doctorow
(And finally, back to this dude.)

I have no idea what to think of this xD but this was fun. And cool. We should do this again sometime. Y'know, when my writing skills improve. If they ever do.

[Beau LaRoux]

First, this thing is fascinating and I have already abused it just out of curiosity. Second, I used the thread Faster for Beau, though I also pulled others.

Doesn't matter though, he's remarkably consistent:
It's mostly William Gibson, who is who I normally get just for my writing in general, or Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone With the Wind.

So, basically, it depends on how "Southern" Beau's getting, and when he's really Southern, I get like THE Southern writer, so, yeah, I'll take it.

[Carleigh Davidson]

This site is so cool!

I used this for Carleigh and got Dan Brown, who wrote The Da Vinci Code

I used this one for Kristina and got Margaret Atwood, a Canadian novelist

[Dr. Sean Neville]

For the supernatural AU that Dryope and I are writing, I write like Kurt Vonnegut, who, incidentally, is one of Sean's favorite authors.

[Joshua Bernstein]

for the genderswap AU I write like Gertrude Stein. gay Jewish woman for genderbent Josh? seems legit.