Today's Distraction
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Possibly not entirely accurate (we were about as startled to learn we write like David Foster Wallace as Lola Pants was to discover her style closely resembles Kurt Vonnegut. Also: Proust writes like Isaac Asimov. Who knew?) but this crack-like website is WAY more fun than work. Just tinker until you get Dan Brown and then be sure to include that in your query letter. From the lovely Helen.
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Lol, I put in the first 1000 words of my novel... and got Mr.Brown on the first try! Now if only this was a marketable tool for agent hunting!
You enjoy a meme until you start poking around and discover very bad, no good things about its existence.
Then it becomes less fun, and more gross. >.>
"White Dudes: Ruining Everything Fun Since the Beginning of Time." Sigh.
Oh great. Because I'm no distracted enough...*runs to the site to waste more time NOT writing*
I found out that Slaughterhouse Five appears to have been written by James Joyce... at least the first 5 pages.
My first result was... Stephenie Meyer. Currently searching for something on my desk with which to put out an eye.
And I promise I didn't use the words "sparkly" or "topaz" anywhere in my sample.
Ugh. I was hoping for a Jane Austen and it turns out that I write like either Chuck Palahniuk or J.K. Rowling, depending on the chapter.
Though it's possible a Harry Potter/Fight Club mash-up could sell.
Now if I can subtly work that into my query letter I'll be set.
William Shakespeare appears to be a pen name for James Joyce... which may Sam points out may have been a pen name for Kurt Vonnegut.
That's a might long lifetime... is Kurt Vonnegut a vampire?
The first page of my WIP got me Stephen King.
This will serve as my encouragement for the day.
SWEET...H.P. Lovecraft for my BLAWG, Stephen King for my current WIP, and Chuck Palahniuk for the ms out on sub. I'm either versatile or a multiple. Either way, this site is so very awesome. Thankie.
Kipling. Groovy.
Margaret Atwood. I can die happy.
Add me to the shiny, happy people on the side of the road! Two paragraphs from the ms returned P.G. Wodehouse and then two paragraphs from the blog rendered David Foster Wallace.
If only.
Thanks for the awesome time waster.
Best. Time. Suck. Ever.
I just ran fifteen chapters of my WIP and all but Chapter Five were rated David Foster Wallace.
Five was Stephanie Meyer, which means some serious editing will be in order, once I stop crying.
I pasted in the entirety of the (completed) MS I'm currently revising--David Foster Wallace again.
I'd better look this dude up . . .
(Just kidding--love his work, wish like hell he was still with us)
re: Dan Brown. I think I would rather soak my feet in boiling tar first. It would hurt my ego less, and god knows, the poor baby's gotten enough hits via query-letter revisions lately.
Besides, it says I already write like Stephen King.
Dan Brown for my wip.
Stephen King for my completed ms.
Apparently, I have become stupider since last summer.
TIME SUCK, INDEED.
When I write my blog I either write like Stephen King or David Foster Wallace or, entertainingly, James Joyce.
BEST YET! :D
I put in my husband's journal entry from the 3rd grade and it came back Margaret Atwood.
I don't know why that made me so happy, but it did. :D
I would totally have sent this to you if my computer wasn't currently sending me error messages like, "Failed to save all data on C: drive; data is lost. Try to save lost data elsewhere."
Gah!
I got Kipling, Ian Fleming, Salinger, and Palahniuk, depending on which short stories I gave them. The novel was deemed Palahniuk-esque. But it also thinks Virginia Woolf writes like H.G. Wells, and that Hemingway writes like James Joyce, so...
I got David Foster Wallace, too. I'll be over at the cool-but-weird kids' table, waiting for you.
JK ROWLING!!
that is the awesomest site ever
I got Wallace twice and Lovecraft once. I was tempted to plug in some Shakespeare and see what it said, but I see others have beat me to it. :)
Personally, I think I write like me, but hey.
1) This was going around Twitter like the brain virus it is the other day, and I couldn't resist making some variations. (This was before they changed the look of the real site to sell more stuff, but the altered badges should still work fine.)
2) Don't read if you want to keep on believin', BUT: this analysis seems to have a whole lot to do with the keywords in the pasted sample. I noticed after pasting in Horton Hears a Who text gave me Kipling. Turns out if you fill the box with just the word "elephant" over & over, you write like Kipling.
So if you want to cheat, this is the way to go. Fill the box with "robot" to get Asimov, "magic" to get Rowling, "Volvo" to get Meyer...
I got Dan Brown a few times. Once each for David Foster Wallace, James Joyce and Chuck Palahniuk.
I got David Foster Wallace 4x, Dan Brown 2x, and singles of Meyer, Palahniuk, Shakespeare & Nabokov for chapters of my memoir. "Volvo" does not appear anywhere my memoir or my life...
For my fiction WIP: Rowling, D.F. Wallace, and Steven King for each of the first 3 chaps...
I guess I must read DF Wallace, hope he's funny.
I found out that Dan Brown+Ursula LeGuin+H.P.Lovecraft=Douglas Adams.
Now that's some serious shit, ain't it.
Also, anybody interested in a cyberpunk novel written like Joyce?
Anyone?
Com'on, there's got to be some takers... Anyone?
*le sigh*
I did this a couple of days ago. I made myself new badges that say:
I write like
I have a penis
and
I write like
Dan Brown and Stephen King's Secret Love Child
after putting in every chapter of two completed MSS.
posted on my blog.
I got Dan Brown my first try too! woohoo!!!
Hey, I got Dan Brown on my WriMo that is in first draft! I'll send it right over!
My polished one got JD Salinger, so I'm guessing I'm considering taking up a lot of strange behaviors because then it's a sure thing, right?
*cracks up at Lola Pants being analyzed*
Amusingly enough, I got Stephen King, Lewis Carrol, Margaret Mitchell, and Bram Stoker, all from different paragraphs of the same wip. Hmm...
My other ms got JK Rowling, Charles Dickens (I was hoping for Jane Austen...) and Anne Rice.
*is puzzled, but amused*
Apparently I write like James Joyce.
Apparently, I have written my school-based humorous chapter book for fourth graders in the style of Stephen King. Sweet. This brings up many, many new plot possibilities...
It must be true. I write just like Arthur C. Clark.
Because he's well known for his historical fiction. WE'RE LIKE PEAS IN A interstellar-planet-pod!
I entered eight separate posts (the longer ones) from the blog, and got eight different results:
Doctorow
Atwood
King
Lovecraft
Wilde
Nabokov
Wodehouse
Salinger
The idea that I write like any of them is pretty silly, but the idea that I write like all of them is ridiculous.
Apparently, Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" is just like H.P.Lovecraft...
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