Monday, July 26, 2010

Can I Use This As a Reference When Contacting a Publisher?


I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!


Posted by Christopher B at 1:16 PM
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7 comments:

John Williams said...

I got Douglas Adams, which made me very happy. Then I did it again with another piece of writing and got Stephenie Meyer... I will never visit that site ever again.

July 26, 2010 4:06 PM
bliss_infinte said...

Fun link.

I got Dan (Da Vinci Code) Brown but other writing brought up J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursala K. LeGuin. I guess the verdict is still up in the air. I wonder if it's based more on subject matter and less style?

July 26, 2010 7:00 PM
Swordgleam said...

The first time it gave me some guy I've never heard of. The second time it gave me Harry Harrison. Awesome!

July 26, 2010 8:44 PM
JasperAK said...

I think not. It rated different pieces of mine as Nabokov, LeGuin, Joyce, and Dan Brown, and Stephanie Meyer. Now granted I am honing my style, but seriously?

A cute little exercise that I would wonder what it would do with a couple of paragraphs of Hemingway.

I think if I put in a few from Meyer it would shut down the internet. :)

July 26, 2010 10:07 PM
JasperAK said...

Interesting, also I forgot Wodehouse.

I also put in a piece I wrote in 1992 that gave me Stephen King--A period of time where King was just about all I read.

Maybe there is something to it?

July 26, 2010 10:11 PM
user@example.com said...

You just did contact a publisher!

(it's run by a vanity publisher using it to get links so google'll give them a higher rank, and sell dubious ebooks of "advice" - http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012502.html)

July 27, 2010 1:42 AM
Christopher B said...

Here I am hoping for Lovecraft or King, but the pieces I entered gave me Joyce and James Fenimore Cooper. Not that I don't mind being told I write like these luminaries, mind you.

I was therefore thinking this thing must be completely random, so I pasted in the entirety of CAS' "The Abominations of Yondo." Turns out, CAS writes (or wrote) like H.P. Lovecraft. So maybe it's not so random after all.

I'd wager money that most of the analysis comes down to word choice.

July 27, 2010 9:42 AM

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