This recently made the rounds on Twitter. Want to know what famous writer's prose your work is similar to?
Go to the site, paste in a few paragraphs of your work -- a novel or short story in progress, a blog post, an article you've written or any other sample of your writing. Click analyze. In moments you'll get the results.
http://iwl.me/
Have fun.
Oh, me? I tried three different works and got three different results. According to the analysis, I write like:
Robert Louis Stevenson (paragraphs from my SFR Adventure)
Dan Brown (paragraphs from my Near Future SFR)
James Joyce (paragraphs from an article)
I did this with a chapter from a SFR wip and got William Shakespeare. Who knew!
ReplyDeleteI got J K. Rowling. Not sure whether to be pleased or not! ha ha
ReplyDeleteI got Stephen King. That's cool, I like his books.
ReplyDeletePassages from different PoV sections get me a different author each time, until Stephen King came up twice over James Joyce, Dan Brown and Vladimer Nabuktim?
ReplyDeleteI love JKRowling,almost as much as I love your writing, so yippee for Barbara!
I got Vonnegut for my current WIP, Chandler for another novel, and JKR for a YA piece I did for NaNo one year.
ReplyDeleteArlene: I got Vlad for one of my short pieces too, I had to look him up. :o)
Tried three different SF stories. I got Ian Fleming (TWICE) and Kurt Vonnegut. Wait till I tell my dad!
ReplyDeleteIs it weird that two parts of my story got two different answers? Am I really Sybil? LOL.
ReplyDeleteI got Dan Brown and James F. Cooper.
How telling is it that I find Dan Brown's stories kind of boring. Hopefully it's just a genre thing. LOL.
I got Douglas Adams. Then realized I wanted it to tell me I write like ME. LOL!
ReplyDeleteVladimir Nabokov with a murder mystery.
ReplyDeleteStephen King with a YA fantasy.
Weird both times.
Okay, I admit I've been avoiding this, seeing it as crack for procrastinating writers. :D (Trust me, I don't need help in that department.) But I finally just did it...
ReplyDeleteFor my WIP I got Ian Fleming. I assumed this was based on two words in the excerpt: FBI AGENT.
But then I did my first book -- and got Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Brit writing about a spy and a Brit writing about a detective, interesting.
So JKR is the only woman who has popped up?
I got Kurt Vonnegut and James Joyce.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough I'd mentioned Kings Cross station in the bit I posted. I guess that linked me to JK Rowling!!
ReplyDeleteI got Stephen King for the current MS I'm formatting (Para romance). Wild!
ReplyDeleteThen I got David Foster Wallace(is he literary fic?) for my current release (contemporary fantasy/romance).
Then finally, just for kicks, I pasted an excerpt of a WIP I'm reworking (noirish romance) and got Margaret Mitchell.
Alll over the map lol.
Looks like there's at least another female writer in the results though!