I Write Like...

Iggy · 2015-03-16T21:05:02Z

Do this thing . Do it now and tell us who you write like. :3 I analyzed a bit of https://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work/Iggy/Empathogen-111344 and it says I write like Chuck Palahniuk.. whoever that is. xD

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Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:16 am

BluesClues says... · Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:16 am

@Widdershins I always get different results too, based on which WIP I use. Or even depending on which draft I'm in.

The first chapter of Book Man also got Chuck Palahniuk, but I can't judge how accurate that is since I've never read any of his books. Apparently he wrote Fight Club, but of course this is based on style and diction, not content...

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Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:26 am

r4p17 says... · Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:26 am

I write like H. P. Lovercraft! I posted chapters of Typo Alley and another thing I am working on and I got Lovercraft twice and two or three others once, so I think I write most like him.

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Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:08 am

Apricity says... · Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:08 am

Please wait, don't grow up yet- Douglas Adam

A super old project - Stephen King

Post-perpetual - H.P Lovecraft

Re:Miniscence- David Foster Wallace

Granted, I like all of these authors, apart from Lovecraft's books whom I haven't read yet. Though frankly, I don't seen any identical things. As @Widdershins said, how do they analyse this? Is it based on the style, the content, what exactly is it?

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Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:01 pm

Pompadour says... · Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:01 pm

Elementarni is written in a manner similar to Ian Fleming's, apparently. >.>

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Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:01 pm

Mea says... · Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:01 pm

One Small Flame - Neil Gaiman, which is pretty cool.

Voices - David Foster Wallace, who I've never heard of.

As the World Falls - James Joyce

Glasses - also David Foster Wallace

I put some of my old (read: bad) stuff through, but I didn't get anyone I know.

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Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:19 am

Willard says... · Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:19 am

Brazzaville got me David Foster Wallace.

Me typing three paragraphs of "beep beep I like mac n' cheese" and stupid rhymes like that got James Joyce.

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Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:01 pm

ThereseCricket says... · Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:01 pm

Secret of the One got me J.K. Rowlings.

Course I stuck in Dawn of the Daughter of God after that and got Jack London.

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Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:53 am

crossroads says... · Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:53 am

There's a tiny bit of explanation on how it works here - http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/a-qa-with ... et-science

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Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:21 am

kayfortnight says... · Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:21 am

I like this!
A short story I think I posted, Gone is not Forever-Chuck Palahniuk. (I don't know who he is.)
Magic's Will (which I really should go back to as my abandoned Last Man Standing project eventually)- Bram Stoker (Dracula!)

These are private WIPs that I haven't put any of on YWS yet...
The Promises We Made- Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy FTW!)
The Pit-Stephen King (Still need to read him but think I'll like him based on recommends.)
This Thing You Call Love-Stephanie Meyer (Considering it's a "attempting to fix the many issues with Twilight fanfic, I'm actually happy it emulates her style.)

So in general, pretty happy with my results. And Aria, that interview is fascinating. Thanks for the link!

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Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:23 pm

Wolfi says... · Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:23 pm

How cool is this!

Yaaayyy! I got one of my favorite authors, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book) for two very different short stories of mine and two of my Ordadus chapters, and Stephen King for another short story.

I was very excited to get these two authors, particularly the former, but when I submitted a poem and was rewarded with my most favorite author in the world: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)!

Other results were Margaret Mitchell (

), Dan Brown, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Out of these results, it is clear that my writing resembles Rudyard Kipling's the most!

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled
and do not be afraid.

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Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:48 pm

AttackOfTheFlash says... · Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:48 pm

My sci-fi short story WIP (not on YWS) got Anne Rice.

A private short story got L. Frank Baum.

A chapter from an unnamed story here on YWS got Cory Doctorow.

And last but not least a few paragraphs from my NaNo got Harry Harrison.

I've never read books from any of these authors, so I hope my writing being compared to them is a good thing!

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Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:04 pm

OliverWilliams says... · Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:04 pm

I got Stephen King. Interesting, but I would like to see more details about how it works.

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Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:08 pm

Hattable says... · Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:08 pm

I pasted my story Dash for Charbrush and got Mark Twain...
Really? I don't think so... I'm going to paste something else.

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Prok once said something about Nate and apple pie. I forget the context.

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Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:21 pm

Hattable says... · Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:21 pm

Did some more:
A Legend of Colors got me Gertrude Stein (never heard of)
A Legend of Shadows got me Arther Clarke (2001: a Space Odyssey apparently)
Imaginary Friends got me Chuck Palahniuk (never heard of)
Theodore Sparks and the Conductor got me H.P. Lovecraft!
Timeblinks - part 1 got me Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code)

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Imaginary Friends and Timeblinks - part 1 can be found in my portfolio. I probably won't be posting the Legend of stories but Theodore Sparks might get here some day.

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"I remember I posted Klingon and it made the mods super hard" -Willard

Prok once said something about Nate and apple pie. I forget the context.

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