I write like...

I dont know yet who i write like. Im curious about it too. I want to visit that site. It sounds fun. Its fun to know that your wriiting styles are close to famous ones. But what if you use the sites feature and youve got no closest results? Lol!

Hi Spike, Take a look at my results from a random sample of my responses here at mylot: "Did you say "credit card" online? It is like crying "run for your life" as what I always do whenever I see it on a website that offers a lot of goodies for exchange of the credits I have. Good thing, I don't have a credit card or I would have fallen for such ruse a long time ago...." just like HARRY HARRISON (Never heard of this writer yet). H Here's another one: "I've read somewhere that to attract girls, a man has only to hold an infant in his arms. Girls would fall in line to smile at the infant and they also give you the same look. I don't know why but being a married man with two kids, I know its true. When I was still a roving single, girls hardly notice me but it changed when I got married (and my wife was kind of jealous about it)." ... That's JAMES JOYCE And here's the real winner: "The importance of a psychological well-being has been recognized for centuries: "A sound mind in a sound body" according to the Greeks. Modern medicine also perceived this mind-body relationship producing the school of psychology by Freud and Jung out of the studies of past philosophers and physiologists. Having a positive state of mind saves one from the daily stress of this rat-race world. Some who can't slow down, gets hypertension, ulcers, migraines and all sots of bodily ailments, all out of just a few negative and unhealthy thoughts that race through our mind all the time. Surely, if our mind can cause all this physical harm, a sound, well balanced state of mind could also cause a lot of good towards a healthy body." That's MARY SHELLEY! I just can't help but smile, thanks for the tip. It was a lot of fun.

George Orwell? Stephen King?? Wow, I'm good!

I did it and it said I write like William Gibson. I didn't really know who we was, but I looked him up and I'm okay with writing like him. lol. I wonder how the site does it. If it just randomly gives you a name or if it has some sort of method. Either way, schweeet.

Oh...this sounds fun! I shall return with a writing style...lol.

This was a really good site, thank you for sharing! I put in two samples of my writing and got told I write like J.K.Rowling. I'm pretty pleased with that as long as it doesn't imply I finish my stories with a dreadful epilogue which will make people hate me. My second sample told me I write like William Shakespeare, which I certainly can't complain about!

Well Dawmn, I write like Cory Doctorow. I've read a few of his stories, but I can't say I've been a huge fan. Must go find some of his stuff...

AGGGGGGGGGGGHHH!!!??!? I write like Lovecraft? Oh, just shoot me now.... Still, thanks. I've bookmarked the site. Maggiepie "He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink." ~ John Ray, naturalist 1627-1705

I am told I write like H. P. Lovecraft, Cory Doctorow & Chuck Palahniuk, all for different paragraphs of one article. Cory Doctorow if the whole article was to be considered. http://trifter.com/practical-travel/dangers-of-travel-by-bus/ Makes me wonder whether I am plain mixed-up or suffer multiple personality disorder? I must now find out who these worthies are who I am aping!

SO I went to the sight and put in a paragraph on a horror book that I started and apparently I write like James Joyce. I still have some other works of writing like my poems and thoughts. Can't wait to analyse them. Thanks that was fun and like you said "no fee".

I posted some blog paragraphs and Chuck Palahniuk(he wrote fight club and also some horror),Margaret Atwood(poet),Stephen King(science fiction,horror) and Cory Doctrow(science fiction).Guess most of mine leans more toward science fiction,except for the poet,who would have ever known.That was fun thogh.

this is cool! haha i'll go try that site later.. thanks for it, spikethelobster.. :) happy mylotting. :)

Hi STL.. Can I call you that way? This made me laugh.. I'm just an aspiring and maybe junior writer.. but I WRITE LIKE says I write like Cory Doctorow..

This IS really fun! Thanks for sharing this! First time, I pasted the way I usually narrate and I got Cory Doctorow..don't know who that is... Then I pasted a paragraph of a love story I wrote, and I got James Joyce! Interesting... I also got J.D Salinger from the next paragraphs of the same story. James Joyce and JD Salinger style in the same story? That was funny! xD

It's really quite fun. I first tried it with snippets from some of my longer responses and then with some of my other writings. I seem to have a fair few styles, from Arthur Conan Doyle to Vladimir Nabokov but the one who seems to come up most often is Cory Doctorow (of whom I had never heard!). I then tried a few passages from various authors and it correctly identified the ones I tried. I'd love to know what algorithm it uses. It's probably fairly simple, based on word length, sentence length or something like that (it has to be quite simple because it doesn't take long to evaluate even a fairly substantial chunk of text. True to form, this was apparently written in the style of Cory Doctorow!

Never got the same answer! Need to keep trying.... Anyway, I was Kurt Vonnegut while responding(only one sample, in every case), Rudyard Kipling while starting a story-type discussion, and Mario Puzo was awarded to me for the story I'm trying to put forward! Don't have much knowledge to comment on these findings. But I'll bounce back surely! *** Two for Kurt Vonnegut now!