Who do you write like?

[TropicThunder]

Who do you write like?



I dug up this link from a post on the TMF made ages ago, mostly because I found it really interesting. Right now I'm reading a book by Chuck Palahniuk, which is what made me think of this. When I first submitted a few paragraphs from a story, Palahniuk was my result. This time when I submitted, my result was Harry Harrison, which also made me laugh. Quite the difference. Although I took this test using two very, very different writing styles and genres.


Just for fun, I typed in 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy black dog' and the result was Rudyard Kipling - the author of 'The Jungle Book' and other great novels and poetry.


So who do you write like?

 

[GenericUsername]

Feeding that test the first part of my most recent, unpublished fan fic, I got James Joyce as my result.

Pasting in a copy of an already published fan fic, I got H. P. Lovecraft

Edit: I should also say that I don't really associate my writing style with either, but oh well! 🙂

 

[Candygirl]

I typed some random thought about society and got Leo Tolstoy lol

 

[milagros317]

My results:

I write like
David Foster Wallace

 

[EBunbury]

I wanted to see how consistent this thing was, so I selected five pages at random from one of my writings. I got: Gertrude Stein, Ray Bradbury, Dan Brown, Jane Austen, and William Shakespeare. I think it's picking famous authors at random.

 

[CaptainValiant]

I write all my serious poetry in italics.

 

[Gibsonfire159]

I've taken a lot of inspiration from George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire." (Yeah, who hasn't these days...) It's just the first series I've read that dedicated each chapter to a specific character with a third person close view. I've been writing a book in that style, but I wouldn't say I necessarily write like Martin does.

Now I love my fantasy/historical fantasy, but I like making things more of a drama than an action-packed adventure like LOTR/Hobbit. I write about universal themes, love, war, religion, politics, life, death, and everything between and beyond but I like to put those themes into an otherworldly context. Martin, so far has been the best I've read, I just haven't stumbled across any others yet.

 

[TTT for joy]

I apparently write like J. Joyce... the worst thing is, I never heard of this author before. 😀