A friend and frequent commenter posted about this site on Facebook (via a link to Joe Hill’s Tumblr—in which he’d gotten the result “Stephen King”; funny once you realize who Hill is). It’s an automated engine that takes a sample of your writing and compares it to a bunch of well-known authors based on your word choice and writing style.
Initially, I tried a piece of my fantasy writing (if you’re into that kind of thing, you’re welcome to pop over to that blog, too; it’s called The Dryad Chronicles, and I write there under the pen name Rachelle Wright). Depending on which chunk I chose, I was told I write like Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, or Ernest Hemingway. Hmmm…
Knowing that my fiction and my blogging are a bit different, though, I thought I’d try submitting one of my posts, just to see what kind of difference it would make. I chose my review of The Name of the Doctor, as it’s most recent. The result could hardly have been more appropriate for a Whovian. Here’s the “I Write Like” badge I got:
You couldn’t script a better result than that!
Wow!
I could only dream, Marcia! I see I have a lot of catching up to do here, reading. I’ve been out of town, and when I visit my Mom, she doesn’t have access to the Internet! 🙁 She has an iPhone, but I’m not about to attempt going online with that small screen.
I’ll have to take a look at your writing!
🙂
I totally laughed when this came up.
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