I Write Like

Hmmmm, apparently J. D. Salinger wrote using random words and letters and nonsense:
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asdfjhasd f ahdf sa hsdfhsjdhfkdsjh fksdjhfkjdhsf asdf
asdfhasdfisdh aseiuyweuh jsdf adlsf ñpfasdiufh afa
asdfsdhfl ñadifasdhfasdbf auyasdkjfn luh”
~ JD Salinger

It may just get a number using a function on the characters input, and then returns a certain author. Why?
To tell you to suscribe to their newsletter, of course.

I don’t think it’s random, at the very least – the same piece of text will keep giving you the same author.

My lengthier journal posts have pretty reliably been coming up as Stephen King, which is pretty neat, except for one that came up as Dan Brown, which made me make a face.

The following text is an excerpt from Kipling’s “The man who was” (available here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12732/12732-8.txt)

Guess what? Kipling wrote like James Joyce.

Dirkovitch was a Russian–a Russian of the Russians, as he said–who
appeared to get his bread by serving the czar as an officer in a
Cossack regiment, and corresponding for a Russian newspaper with a
name that was never twice the same. He was a handsome young Oriental,
with a taste for wandering through unexplored portions of the earth,
and he arrived in India from nowhere in particular. At least no living
man could ascertain whether it was by way of Balkh, Budukhshan,
Chitral, Beloochistan, Nepaul, or anywhere else. The Indian
government, being in an unusually affable mood, gave orders that he
was to be civilly treated, and shown everything that was to be seen;
so he drifted, talking bad English and worse French, from one city to
another till he forgathered with her Majesty’s White Hussars[3] in the
city of Peshawur,[4] which stands at the mouth of that narrow
sword-cut in the hills that men call the Khyber Pass. He was
undoubtedly an officer, and he was decorated, after the manner of the
Russians, with little enameled crosses, and he could talk, and (though
this has nothing to do with his merits) he had been given up as a
hopeless task or case by the Black Tyrones[5], who, individually and
collectively, with hot whisky and honey, mulled brandy and mixed
spirits of all kinds, had striven in all hospitality to make him
drunk. And when the Black Tyrones, who are exclusively Irish, fail to
disturb the peace of head of a foreigner, that foreigner is certain to
be a superior man. This was the argument of the Black Tyrones, but
they were ever an unruly and self-opinionated regiment, and they
allowed junior subalterns of four years’ service to choose their
wines. The spirits were always purchased by the colonel and a
committee of majors. And a regiment that would so behave may be
respected but cannot be loved.

I rite leik Jeff K.

James Joyce — James Joyce — Steven King. That’s three goes of two paragraphs from the same story.

Shenanigans or not, I certainly don’t write anything like James Joyce. (In fact the whole story was an attempt to write in the style of Roger Zelazny, but whether I succeeded is another thing entirely.)

Ignore this. It’s of no use.

I write like Dan Brown.

Waitaminute…. I write like Mike Tyson?!

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

I put a several paragraphs of my so-far unfinished book, and apparently I write like J. K. Rowling. Yey, I’ll be a millionaire writer! I think it’s because mine is quite a weird, fantastical writing style.

I hope they don’t steal my writing, I’ll go ape-sh** because it has taken me a year to get where I am!

I got Isaac Asimov and I’m pretty okay with it, junk application or not.

It probably has more to do with subject matter than actual writing style.

I got Asimov after entering a chemistry paper, and Vonnegut on a speech I wrote about Vonnegut (even after removing his name, his works, and so on).

Though, how I got Chuck Palahniuk on a paper I wrote about a Thai restaurant, I do not know…

‘You write like…Stephanie Meyer’
MOTHERF-

I wrote a blog about sultry, humid, hot air – was told I write like Edgar Allen Poe. Then I wrote about geneology and the Church – was told I write like Dan Brown. I think it is really content, not style. I’d like to see what criterea they are using for analysis.

sounds like it has a pool of at most 100 writers, I got ian fleming, james joyce and stephen king. I thing this app is blah.

Took a consistent block of text and split into 4 parts.
Got 4 different authors.

Also, the extra special subscription offer is for an e-book that is easily available through Project Gutenberg.

This was a waste of time

I’m in the process of writing a report. I tried the analyzer several times on various paragraphs and got:

James Joyce
Leo Tolstoy
David Foster Wallace
George Orwell
Daniel Dafoe and
Dan Brown

I must be AWESOME. Gotta go. Heading out to write the great American Novel. Look for it soon!

Who the fuck is David Foster Wallace?

But then again, I agree with christine… It is based on content…

– I wrote about how I hate sparkling vampires, WOW!, I eventually write like Stephanie Meyer…

The range of variations between the different original language manuscripts is not as large as it would seem at first. Many of the differences have no more consequence than the dotting of an “i” or the crossing of a “t” in English. Other differences are copying errors that have no more impact than
using “an” instead of “a” in English. Other differences are caused by using synonyms, where the effect on the meaning is slight if it has an effect at all.
There is no denying that there are differences which go beyond those listed above. However, there is not a single doctrine ever mentioned in the passages in question which cannot be as well or better established from other verses of Scripture. Every doctrine established in the King James Version can be just as well established from the New American Standard or the New International Version.

I write like Cory Doctorow, who I have never read (but I will now).

I write an occasional column for a medical mag.
I entered two early ones and got Ian Fleming! Twice!
Then a later column – Oscar Wilde.
Finally an non-column article, for the same mag – David Foster Wallace, the well known (?) author of ‘hysterical reality’ novels.

I think it’s random.

John

And Hemingway writes like James Joyce.
Discuss.

John

What is a matter with you people? You seem to lack the intelligence and wisdom to understand that the analyzer takes selected works of several authors and compares your piece to the text similar to yours by means of the following criteria:

words, their grade level and syllabication; phrases from prepositional to verbals; complements; adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. And much more. The power of the computer makes this possible.

It compares sentence type and structure: e.g. Simple sentence with an infinitive phrase. I’m sure it even investigates at the paragraph level: narrative, descriptive, explanatory, and persuasive.

Do you get the idea? All writers use various rules of grammar and composition. Of course, not only in our language, English, but others as well.

Another e.g. Ernest Hemingway wrote short sentences with subjects coming first. Dickens and Lovecraft, used big words with long, stringy sentences, of which today might be considered too long. More contemporary writing is terse, to the point. The machine is not bias.

I write like H.P. Lovecraft, and man is it so true. I never heard of him, but after reading a few of his short stories, to see if my way of writing truly is anywhere near his style, no doubt exists in my mind. And believe me or not, I tried analyzing on my own, but the only thing I found out is that I love those lengthy sentences that everyone seems to despise today due to our hectic fast-paced world of give me now! Fools. Then they wonder where are all the good writers.

Yes, I entered more and came up with Dickens, and someone else, but I get the gist of what the creator of the analyzer had in mind.

Write a dozen paragraphs of your way of writing and I’ll bet you’ll get an average of one author. Try it. I haven’t, and I don’t care to. I think, if anything, it has encouraged me to write in the natural and never compromise my style, even if it means a smaller audience. Don’t laugh at it, try using it as a guide instead. It’s worth it I think. Thank you.

Anyone who believes this program is consistent is either an idiot or in denial. Just face it for crying out loud! It’s a sham!
I pasted a text from one of my stories and got Charles Dickens as a first result, then pasted the same text and got H.P. Lovecraft, who still doesn’t remotely resemble Dickens.
Besides, there’s no way an author can be similar to like ten different famous authors. I’ve gotten James Joyce (yeah right!), Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov (strange since I don’t write in Russian) Stephanie Meyers and Dan Brown. Gee, wonder why?

Funny. I didn’t know that Mark Twain ignored basic grammatical rules, such as not using real words.
Apparently he could have written this:
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i write like stephanie meyer