Here's a clever tool that analyzes your word choice and writing style to determine which famous writer your write like. I entered my most recent blog post and the results say I write like Corey Doctorow, sci-fi author and co-editor of Boing Boing. Curious to hear other peoples' results (add them here!).

This system kept saying I write like Nick O'Neill. Pretty impressive work by the team at I Write Like! ;)

I am David Foster Wallace.

I write like H.P. Lovecraft. I'll take it.

😭 Dan Brown 😭

A few paragraphs later, I guess I'm Oscar Wilde!

This is a nice joke. Would be a great tool if it worked. Everyone gets Cory Doctorow. Even a DFW excerpt got Cory Doctorow.

Shakespeare

I got Vladimir Nabokov for a small excerpt I pasted from the novel I'm writing for NaNoWriMo. So no, not everyone gets Cory Doctorow. Though I am also part Russian, so maybe there is something from my upbringing that changes the style of my writing. I have never read any of Nabokov's work, and I am working on a bit of a Cthulhian horror fantasy. Though, when I included my Prologue and not just part of my first chapter, I got P.G. Wodehouse who I have never heard of.

I got Corey Doctorow as well. They seem to like matching his style

Got James Joyce for a new writing sample which was very stream of consciousness and Cory Doctorow for an old sample that was satire.

I got James Fenimore Cooper, author of Last of the Mohicans. When I only wrote one sentence it gave me Cory Doctorow - based on all of the comments, it seems that is the default when it can't determine a writing style.

@rrhoover Corey Doctory as well, must be an entrepreneur thing! But then Tried another Blog Post and it said I write like Dan Brown... dam I'm quitting and writing books now :)

This is cool - apparently I write like H.P. Lovecraft!

Funny, someone commented that a David Foster Wallace excerpt got Cory Doctorow. I got David Foster Wallace with this piece: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ab...

I'm David Foster Wallace!

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