Monday, July 19, 2010

Cool.


I write like
Isaac Asimov
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Via Breda. Odd though, I haven't really read a whole lot of Asimov to be honest.
at 5:13 PM

7 comments:

Josh said...

That's pretty interesting. Did you try it more than once? I tried it with some different things I had written and got several different names. Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Chuck Palahniuk, and I got Dan Brown three or four times. Fun little link.

July 19, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Fred said...

I was at work, so I didn't have much to work with. One blog post got me some guy I've never heard of, and I got that one by dumping in a rough draft of an old English paper that was still in the university's system.

Overall my blog posts are not really a good example of my writing style, being short-ish little blog posts. I'm gonna dig up some stuff I've written for various classes and see what I get when I've got some time.

July 19, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Josh said...

After I posted that, I went back and started finding more stuff. Letters I had written, my law school application personal statement/essay, and started digging up long responses on other blogs I read - all stuff that was at least three or four paragraphs. I got quite a few different names, but the more you put in the more repeats you get.

July 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Tam said...

I write like $RANDOM_AUTHOR too!

July 21, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Fred said...

It does seem to be a good way to discover authors you've never heard of.

July 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Fred said...

So several non-fiction essays result in Cory Doctorow (who?) and the only piece of fiction I could dig up got me Ian Fleming (I've actually read one of his books at some point in time...)

I need to remember where I put the flash drive I was using when I had freshman english...

July 22, 2010 at 2:19 AM
Josh said...

I never got Ian Fleming, which is disappointing considering what a big 007 fan I am. Cory Doctorow (also, who?) was my second most often result with Dan Brown being number one. All total, I probably put in 25 examples, with probably 10 coming up Dan Brown, and maybe 6 or 7 Cory Doctorow. It makes me wonder both how many authors (and who they are) that they have in their system, and how the software decides on who your writing resembles. Oh well, it’s fun anyway, and definitely has the potential to clue you in to some writers you likely aren’t familiar with.

July 23, 2010 at 7:32 PM

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