Horsewithnoname's Comments

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.
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