Sometimes it’s this:
Other times it’s this:
Also:
And also:
And, after one last sample, this:
So, what a fun little algorithm thingy. I write like Margaret Atwood and a bunch of men. There’s my halloween costume!
Atwood: Canadian, novelist, short storyist, other stuffist. (Very incisive style.)
Doctorow: Canadian, novelist, blogger.
King: American, novelist, other stuffist. (I like his tips on writing. His horror is compelling, and maybe I agree with his comments on Stephenie Meyer. Maybe.)
Wallace: American, novelist, essayist. (“Consider the Lobster” is pretty dang awesome. His commentary on Kafka is great, too.)
Nabokov: Russian, novelist, short storyist. (I’m not very familiar with Nabokov, but I do appreciate Russian literature quite a bit.)
These authors are all rather dark, but I trust the algorithm thingy uses keys words and syntax to determine common styles. This doesn’t mean that I’m trying to deny the melancholy or macabre in my stuff, I just find it all very interesting.
October 31, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Very interesting. I remember when I tried that out after hearing about it on NPR. I tried a few of my books and even different amounts of one book, and each time the result was different, so I’m not sure how accurate that thing really is…
October 31, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I mostly used excerpts from this blog, and authors that came up more than once were Doctorow, Nabokov, and Wallace. Yeah, I don’t trust it much, but it was pretty fun