Which famous authors do you write like?

[Remedy]

I got Margaret Atwood for the intro of my sci fi WIP

& J R R Tolkien for the intro of my fantasy WIP

I think it should chuck out some amusing ones like:

You write like Dave from the chip shop
You write like a room full of typewriters and monkeys
You write like a spilled bowl of alphabetti spaghetti

 

[Phyrebrat]

I used my last 300 word challenges to see if there was any sense of consistency, and got:

Strange Fruit - Daniel Defoe
Owen, Come Home - HP Lovecraft
Theodora Sings - Neil Gaiman

So, that's a no then...

pH

 

[Colbey Frost]

L. Frank Baum. BUT I posed some of Baum's work and it said he writes like Stephen King, haha.

 

[Mouse]

For my big gay romance I got Cory wossname, same as KMQ. No idea who he is. For the secret Santa I did for springs I got JD Salinger. Looking at the 2010 thread and what I got then, I think I'll stick to my initial assessment of the thing is broken.

 

[Mirannan]

Hmmm... I put up my latest critique piece here and it tells me I write like Ian Fleming.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

L. Frank Baum. BUT I posed some of Baum's work and it said he writes like Stephen King, haha.

So do you write like Baum writing like King, or like Baum writing like Dave from the chip shop?

 

[AJB]

3 chapters got William Shakespeare, 3 got Arthur Clarke, another 3 got Douglas Adams and 1 got Mary Shelley. Interestingly I've been very inspired by all of these!

If only my writing was just as good!

 

[San]

I used random passages from my novel and a story. Result: Margaret Atwood, James Joyce and Charles Dickens. But I don't think I write like any of them.

 

[Mr Orange]

well i just tried something and it seems like i write like Chuck Palahniuk...

i think Chuck Palahniuk should take that as a bit of an insult considering all i wrote was

blah blah blah blah

repeated enough times for the site to recognise it as a paragraph and analyze it....

 

[Mith]

Well that's certainly interesting, for 3 various parts of my ongoing writing attempt I got myself, L Frank Baum, H P Lovecraft and Cory Doctorow. That could be a bit of a weird mash up.

 

[Beef]

My latest blogpost got Dan Brown.
A chapter from my WiP got Cory Doctorow.

Whoever that is?

 

[Abernovo]

Hmm, for the male PoV, I supposedly write like Ursula K LeGuin, and for the female PoV, Cory Doctorow! Actually, the sex/gender split might be kind of accurate.

I don't have much faith in this program somehow. Mindless fun, though, as per the first post.

 

[nightdreamer]

Hah! I found that another way, and the sample I provided came back as Douglas Adams. I decided I would take that with a nod and not try another sample.

 

[San]

I wanted to check its credibility. So first I used a passage from my story in which the protagonist's name was Kate. Then I used the same passage but changed the name to Betty. And both times it showed different authors!