Who do you write like?

[Canadian_Eh]

I write like...

Stephen King

 

[Flatfoot]

I write like Arthur C. Clarke! Pretty cool! 😀

Also, it seems that David Foster Wallace is the typical result for anyone writing anything remotely contemporary, blog-like, or laced with the occasional profanity.

 

[milagros317]

My results, using exerts from three different stories; 1. and 3. were fiction but 2. was nonfiction.

1. I write like
William Gibson

2. I write like
Stephenie Meyer

3. I write like
Stephen King

 

[desdemona]

http://iwl.me/s/d7939cdb

Apparently David Foster Wallace is popular as a choice.

 

[vic72]

William Shakespeare

 

[vic72]

Ohhhh...like monkeys sitting at a keyboard? That makes more sense!

You pee your pants every third monday.

 

[kopfhorer]

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...Or H.P. Lovecraft.

 

[RUNOFFSTAGE]

Cory Doctorow. Had NO idea who he was so I checked it up a bit. That guy is rad, no doubt about it.
Maybe I'm not so much into the science fiction side of writing but I can definitely agree on everything else he stands for 😀

 

[Bohemianne]

Dan Brown 3x. Cool find.

 

[c7_assassin]

Apparently Bret Easton Ellis (author of Less The Zero and American Psycho) writes like...


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[c7_assassin]

Stephen King writes like...


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<div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png" style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/d7939cdb" style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">David Foster Wallace</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by Mémoires, <a href="http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/" style="color:#888">Mac journal software</a>. <a href="http://iwl.me" style="color:#333; background:#FFFFE0"><b>Analyze your writing!</b></a></p></div>
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[c7_assassin]

J.R.R. Tolkien writes like...


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<div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png" style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/b3a26720" style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">Stephen King</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by Mémoires, <a href="http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/" style="color:#888">Mac journal software</a>. <a href="http://iwl.me" style="color:#333; background:#FFFFE0"><b>Analyze your writing!</b></a></p></div>
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[tkl-pen]

I don't really know - I think I write like myself, nothing less and nothing more.

 

[Saeria]

Tarik- Anne Rice
Existentiaist ramblings Arthur C. Clark
Akamaru's Sky- William Shakespeare
Beast (Frangipani sidestory) - Cory Doctorow

 

[Tiger.Lily]

Journal entry - David Foster Wallace

Prose - Douglas Adams

Prose - Arthur Conan Doyle

Journal entry - Cory Doctorow

Self-descriptive - Cory Doctorow


So. Who is Cory Doctorow?

 

[Mitchell]

I write like P.G. Wodehouse.

Mitch

 

[Wildtime]

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They say I write like David Foster Wallace,
To that I say it's total bullocks,
I do not write like that other man,
Whose syntax and mechanics are otherwise bland!

I will not write in his silly prose,
Even wearing glasses, mustache and fake nose.
His punctuation is sloppy and just plain wrong,
for interviews, stories and even song.

The person whose style I emulate, albeit loose,
Is obviously that of Marcel Proust!