Who do YOU write like?

[RedRose]

I hope this is the right place!

https://iwl.me/

So who is it for you?

I tried with various posts, got Anne Rice several times, Stephen King and Cory Doctorow twice, and Arthur Clarke and Agatha Christie once  ???

[SithLordOfSnark]

Stephen King.

Very nice.

[HairyHeretic]

Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and JK Rowling from three different stories :)

[The Lovely Tsaritsa]

It says Anne Rice, for me. I think, it's being wrong. ::)

[Inkidu]

Anne Rice. I refuse to accept this.

Chapter 2 was Agatha Christie.

I call shenanigans. 

[Eva]

Do we know what the pool of authors is?

[VibrantRiley]

I got Arthur Clarke, which was a pleasant surprise. Given the length of and number of tangents in what I used as a sample, I expected David Foster Wallace.

[Kuroneko]

On various samples I got ... Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, and Anne Rice.

[Sebile]

Two samples later... James Joyce and Bram Stoker

[Vergil Tanner]

So....eight samples in, I got four "Agatha Christie" and four "Anne Rice." I'll take that as a compliment :P

[Blythe]

I analyzed four different posts of mine, and I got Stephanie Meyer, Arthur Clarke, Anne Rice, and Agatha Christie.

I'll just assume I have a very eclectic writing style and take it as a compliment, though it's hard to with Stephanie Meyer being in the mix. >_<

[SithLordOfSnark]

I just tried another post and got Ian Fleming.

[Hypnaughtyq]

I got Bram Stoker and H.P. Lovecraft. I’m more than satisfied with this.

[RedRose]

I got Bram Stoker and H.P. Lovecraft. I’m more than satisfied with this.

That's fantastic!

Stéphanie Meyer lol... Worse than my Anne Rice.

[SithLordOfSnark]

I tossed in a smut post I wrote.. Apparently I write like Anne Rice, if Anne Rice wrote porn.

[Blythe]

if Anne Rice wrote porn.

I've read Anne Rice's books. She totally writes porn, depending on what scene one reads. <_<

[Sain]

Apparently like Anne Rice and Agatha Christie. Looks like a lot of people getting Anne Rice here :P

[HannibalBarca]

Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie, and Agatha Christie, from three separate writing samples.

Damn, I need to read some Agatha Christie.

[Imogen]

Arthur Clarke, Cory Doctorow and Anne Rice.

When I submitted a post with sexual content I got Stephen King.... I hope IWL isn't trying to tell me something .... -pouts-

[AmbrosiaPudding]

I submitted multiple different writing samples, some with blatant sexual themes some without and I got Stephen King 5/5.

[Kazyth]

Anne Rice, Anne Rice, Lovecraft, King, and King.

I'll take it, not bad company.

[The Green One]

I got Agatha Christie! I really love her~

[IronQuill]

I write like Mario Puzo, Agatha Christie, and Anne Rice. Huh...

Cool.

[BlackStone]

Split between Agatha Christie which had be scratch my head, and Anne Rice which I could see.  And for folks who do not think Anne writes smut, all I ahve to say is to read her Sleep Beauty Series.  About the only fetish she did not touch was incest but everything else...damn.

[wander]

My list of posts (I mainly did my recent posts from my WFRP game, a bio I wrote for Wally West for a DC game and then for teh lulz, I did a lengthy ooc post);

Dan Brown, Cory Doctorow, David Foster Wallace (I believe this was my ooc non-prose post), Jonathan Swift and Ursula K. Le Guin.

I actually did an WFRP post twice in a row due to the above being such an eclectic mix, though it did come up with the same author both times.

[Kuroneko]

I tossed in a smut post I wrote.. Apparently I write like Anne Rice, if Anne Rice wrote porn.

She does. Read The Sleeping Beauty Quartet written under her pseudonym, A. N. Roquelaure.

[Shores]

I got Leo Tolstoy for an RP post, Agatha Christie for two horror stories, and Anne Rice for a more dramatic piece. I think the algorithm picks out key words and awards points for each genre, then decides from there.

[Ket]

Cory Doctorow, Anne Rice, and Cory Doctorow.

Guess I should check one of his books out at the library.

[LocusVonErich]

Agatha Christie this time, will probably update soon.

[LocusVonErich]

Got Arthur Clarke this time, though to be fair, my excerpt was dystopian science fiction.

[VashtiDreamer]

Last year was Cory Doctorow, this year was Jonathan Swift, and 2 years ago I wrote like Stephen King.

Satire, human rights, and some horror. :/

[Vekseid]

Harry Harrison and George Orwell for my first two samples.

[Lilias]

After six samples, I got Leo Tolstoy (x2), Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Clarke, and Stephenie Meyer. I'll take the eclecticism as a compliment.

[Giantmutantcrab]

"... like a drunk monkey chained to a typewriter."

Well, can't fault the thing for being honest.

[Mellific]

Agatha Christie. Wow, maybe this means it's time for me to start writing novels.  ::)

[RampantDesires]

I write like:
Anne Rice x2
Leo Tolstoy

[RoadToDusk]

The majority of my pieces -- including a piece I plan to publish for a class -- apparently are similar to Agatha Christie. In two cases, funnily enough my first prompts for my recent class where I've to publish the said piece I mentioned before, I was like Anne Rice. 030 That I find pretty interesting.

[Maedalaane]

Anne Rice and/or Stephen King. Neat.

[persephone325]

Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Arthur Clarke, Dan Brown, Bram Stoker. (In order of how many times they popped up for each writing snippet.)

[Wolfling72]

Four different writing samples

Two James Joyce, one Arthur Clark and one Dan Brown

What?? (Though I dig James Joyce)

[Nowherewoman]

3 different fragments from the smae story, same character. Got three different results:

Stephen King
Dan Brown (gag!)
Anne Rice


Sooooo...yeah.

[Bristol515]

I tried three samples from three different genres and got James Joyce, Daniel Defoe, and Anne Rice.

[LostInTheMist]

I get Agatha Christie for my short stories. (I've been told by professors that I'm more similar to Martin Amis and Jack London, or at least the story in question was.... But regardless.)

For my satire, I got Dan Brown. So... I'm not sure how much stock to put in this. My satire was sarcastic in the utmost, and bore little or no resemblance to Brown.

[Madame BookWyrm]

Agatha Christie and Dan Brown. Interesting.

[Quick Ben]

Did three different samples.

One was Agatha Christie. Helllllll to the yes to that.

Second was Anne Rice. May not be a fan, but she does have good prose so I can't hate this.

And three was... MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!

[Madame BookWyrm]

Do we know what the pool of authors is?

Eva, the list of possible authors is as follows and can be found here:

Agatha Christie
Anne Rice
Arthur Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bram Stoker
Charles Dickens
Chuck Palahniuk
Cory Doctorow
Dan Brown
Daniel Defoe
David Foster Wallace
Douglas Adams
Edgar Allan Poe
Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
Gertrude Stein
H. G. Wells
H. P. Lovecraft
Harry Harrison
Ian Fleming
Isaac Asimov
J. D. Salinger
J. K. Rowling
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jack London
James Fenimore Cooper
James Joyce
Jane Austen
Jonathan Swift
Kurt Vonnegut
L. Frank Baum
Leo Tolstoy
Lewis Carroll
Margaret Atwood
Mario Puzo
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
Neil Gaiman
Oscar Wilde
P. G. Wodehouse
Ray Bradbury
Raymond Chandler
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen King
Stephenie Meyer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Vladimir Nabokov
William Gibson
William Shakespeare

[Kaspider]

Keep getting James Joyce. Was he any good?

[Mr Quixotic]

I tried ten samples from three different stories, and got Anne Rice eight times. The other two were Agatha Christie and Stephen King.

So, I guess that means I've either a fairly consistent style, or that eighty percent of my posts read exactly the same!

[RedRose]

Love that this is still going on lol

[Swidi]

Got Rowling for the introductory chapter and Stephen king for  chapter with sex in it.

[Regina Minx]

I hope this is the right place!

https://iwl.me/

So who is it for you?

I tried with various posts, got Anne Rice several times, Stephen King and Cory Doctorow twice, and Arthur Clarke and Agatha Christie once  ???

I fed in various writers. Michael Connelly writes like Stephen King. Stephen King writes like Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie writes like HG Wells. HG Wells writes like Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe writes like James Fenimore Cooper...

[Revenant]

Stephen King; Orson Wells; and, Dan Brown

Wow. Interesting.

[RipTide]

I got two Anne Rice and one Leo Tolstoy.. That is certainly a flattering combination.

[silverfur]

J.R.R Tolkien I am really happy about that. would also like Robert Frost or Robert Louis Stevenson two of my other favorite writers.

[Dragongoddess]

After putting in a good 25 or so different posts I have made, I have found that Steven King is the main name that pops up.  I have also seen Cory Doctorow, Leo Tolstoy, and Anne Rice.  At first I believed I received Steven King because I have been reading his books lately.  Now, I'm not too sure if that actually is the case.

[Writersblockade]

Three posts from three different stories got me Stephen King and two Cory Doctorow, whom I've never even read before lol

[Nico]

I write like
Arthur Clarke

XD

[Hue Ran]

I went ahead and test 20 different posts and got Anne Rice 10 times, Agatha Christie twice, Cory Doctorow twice, Arthur Clarke twice, Stephen King 3 times, and finally Dan Brown once.

So I think based off of this I can assume I write similarly to Anne Rice.

[Argyros]

I like the premise of this website; it is a very fun, intriguing analytical tool.

I input several excerpts of my writing – new and old^* – and received the following results:

Dan Brown (x 5)
Arthur Clarke (x 3)
Anne Rice
J.K. Rowling

^* – In order of ascending (new) to descending (old).

The oldest excerpts were written ten years ago (2008), while the newest ones were written last year (2018). Proof that a writer's style can change over time!

[Iniquitous]

Apparently I write like Agatha Christie.

[Lyron]

So um, being the dork I am, I decided to try this with five different characters because I try to tweak the narrative voice to suit each one, and I was curious if that would affect the system's results at all. Arthur Clarke was the only match for all five, although Anne Rice followed close behind and appeared the most overall. Two of my characters are/were apparently all over the place, because one resulted in five authors and the other gave me six. ::) Oops.

Anne Rice x6
Arthur Clarke x5
Stephen King x4
Cory Doctorow x2
Dan Brown x2
Agatha Christie x2
Chuck Palahniuk

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

Character 1
Stephen King x3
Cory Doctorow
Arthur Clarke
Dan Brown
Chuck Palahniuk

Character 2
Arthur Clarke
Anne Rice

Character 3
Anne Rice x3
Arthur Clarke

Character 4
Arthur Clarke x3
Anne Rice
Agatha Christie

Character 5
Cory Doctorow
Stephen King
Dan Brown
Anne Rice
Arthur Clarke x2
Agatha Christie

[Tolvo]

The tool gave me Agatha Christie. Never heard that one about my writing before.

I don't really know who I write like, it's really hard for me to judge.

What I usually get told is.

Lovecraft
Stephen King
Harlan Ellison
George RR Martin
RA Salvatore
Timothy Zahn
Claudia Gray
Mary Shelley
Tolkien
Kentaro Miura
Hirohiko Araki

But I don't know if any of them are really accurate. But some do make sense since their works have been a big influence on me(Except Martin and Stephen King). I don't think I've even read Agatha Christie though.

[TheLionKing]

I apparently write like James Joyce. https://iwl.me/s/d760c1b4

I did another sample of writing and got Arthur Conan Doyle https://iwl.me/s/f2fcfd6c

[Lyron]

I wish I had novels from some of these authors, to see if they actually write like themselves. XD

[TheGlyphstone]

I apparently write like Dan Brown.

Imma go cry now. :D

[Callie Del Noire]

First try was: Ian Fleming

[RedRose]

I wish I had novels from some of these authors, to see if they actually write like themselves. XD

I need to try this. Oh well, I do have them but probably in French… I'll check if I have one or two in English though.

[LostInTheMist]

My posts for the site are all over the place, but having submitted several off-site short stories that I have written, I keep getting "Agatha Christie".

For fun I put in some stuff that I've written in collaboration with others, and it also comes out as "Agatha Christie". Maybe I seek out partners who write like me? I don't know. Or maybe the fact that about half of it was me is enough to tip the scales?

On the other hand, I've been told by creative writing teachers that my style is similar to Martin Amis and Jack London,  though this may have to do with the fact that a number of the stories I wrote for those classes dealt with a post-apocalyptic snow-covered world where freezing to death was more likely than anything else. (Teachers love post-apocalyptic worlds. At least my teachers did.)

[Lyron]

I need to try this. Oh well, I do have them but probably in French… I'll check if I have one or two in English though.

If you do try it out, let us know what you find! I'd be interested. :D

[Callie Del Noire]

Adding a new sample I now have:

Anne Rice (x3)
Ian Fleming
Stephen King

[Lovely Complex]

I got Stephen King and Cory Doctorow.

I'm okay with that c:

[Imogen]

Several posts of the same story gave me Arthur C. Clarke. Good for me for being consistent, I guess :-)

Across the board, for my other stories, Anne Rice is the most common with the occasional Clarke, Hemingway or Mario Puzo thrown in.

[TheGlyphstone]

Excerpts from my offsite short story got me Stephanie Meyer, Arthur Clarke, JK Rowling, and...Dan Brown again.

Alright, time to go do some research and write a bizarrely inaccurate alt-modern conspiracy thriller...

[savvi]

Agatha Cristie for my current novel project, a horror short story and a play, Stephen King for a different novel chapter, and Anne Rice for a journal-style short story. This feels about right based on genre and such, I'm satisfied.

[Yuna]

Anne Rice with one post, Stephen King with another. Huh. That's hilarious.

[CaptainErotica]

I got Agatha Christie twice and Stephen King three times. Considering King is one of my favorite writers I’ll take it.

[CyrodilicBrandy]

Completely unrelated to the test above, which I haven't yet taken, I've been told I write like Stephen King. Which was.... one of the highest compliments I've ever received about my writing. That was years ago, when I wrote fanfiction, though.

[Rabbit]

I got Stephen King the first time. Nice. Then Dan Brown, Ian Fleming, and Agatha Christie.

[clonkertink]

Gonna do a couple:

1st sample - An old essay of mine: Arthur C Clarke - I've never actually ready anything by him.

2nd sampe - A post in which my character grappled with a moment of severe introspection: Leo Tolstoy - I've read a few of his short stories, but I wouldn't call him a major influence.

3rd - The intro to a fantasy RP: Vladimir Nabokov - Never read Lolita.

So, apparently I have a strongly Russian writing style? That's kinda depressing.

[Bezukhov]

Gonna do a couple:

1st sample - An old essay of mine: Arthur C Clarke - I've never actually ready anything by him.

2nd sampe - A post in which my character grappled with a moment of severe introspection: Leo Tolstoy - I've read a few of his short stories, but I wouldn't call him a major influence.

3rd - The intro to a fantasy RP: Vladimir Nabokov - Never read Lolita.

So, apparently I have a strongly Russian writing style? That's kinda depressing.

Well, Russian literature is great, I would take pride in writing like Lev Tolstoy. Instead, all I get is authors I have never read (Anne Rice, Arthur Clarke, and Cory Doctorow – I mean, seriously?).

[clonkertink]

Oh, I have nothing against the quality of Tolstoy's writing. I just find a lot of Russian literature depressing in general. I'll definitely take Tolstoy over Anne Rice!

[Danyrie]

I decided to play and analyzed my questionnaire story, and I got Stephen King, hahaha! I'm not surprised though because he is one of my favorite authors and I'm certain his writing style has influenced mine. Although I really am a little jealous of some of the other authors listed here! Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, Ian Fleming, and so many more! Hopefully I can expand my writing style a little.  :-)

Also, on the subject of Russian writers, yes they can be very depressing but their stories are also deep. I think my absolute favorite currently is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, It was written in 1920 and is the predecessor and eerily similar to 1984 by George Orwell (written in 1949). If you're a fan of 1984 then I highly recommend We. It's a short read and worth every moment.

[Endogenesis]

It would appear that I write like James Joyce, that's rather nice I think.

[Thera Regina]

Stephen King it said!

[Thesunmaid]

Anne Rice and Stephan King lol two authors I enjoy.

I was like oh...well ok then. I don't think I am anywhere near them but ok Thanks lol

[Eikichi]

Anne Rice & Agatha Christie. I only seem to get Agatha for posts with sex and everything else becomes Anne Rice.

[Bezukhov]

I decided to play and analyzed my questionnaire story, and I got Stephen King, hahaha! I'm not surprised though because he is one of my favorite authors and I'm certain his writing style has influenced mine. Although I really am a little jealous of some of the other authors listed here! Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, Ian Fleming, and so many more! Hopefully I can expand my writing style a little.  :-)

Also, on the subject of Russian writers, yes they can be very depressing but their stories are also deep. I think my absolute favorite currently is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, It was written in 1920 and is the predecessor and eerily similar to 1984 by George Orwell (written in 1949). If you're a fan of 1984 then I highly recommend We. It's a short read and worth every moment.

"We" is an excellent book, indeed!

[RedRose]

Many great Russian writers though I never heard of Doctorow

[Dichotomy]

xD I write smut like Anne Rice and stories like Agatha Christie.
I can very well live with that.

[Esoterica]

I think I write in a similar way to Nicholas Bella and maybe Anne Rice. Like if they had a baby author.

[Amyclas]

I got Anne Rice as well. I don't even read her stuff that much!

[Amyclas]

I sent in a longer sample of my own erotica and got Agatha Christie!

[Vulnicura]

Apparently, I write like Stephen King. Didn't see that one coming, to be honest, but cool! I'll take it!

[Starcaller]

Sent in about six or seven samples from different stuff and all I got was Anne Rice. I'll take it.

[Anomalous]

I got Mark Twain from 3 samples.


Interesting!!!

[TheSithChicken]

It gave me Agatha Christie twice - and I write absolutely nothing like Agatha Christi - but when I post just the first couple of paragraphs it gives me Arthur Conan Doyle - who I also write nothing like.

[Twisted Crow]

Stephen King and Cory Doctorow.

I get the feeling that my beloved R.A. Salvatore isn't in this list of possible outcomes at all.  ::)

Wanna know who I write like? Dallas. That's who I write like...  ^-^

[Skynet]

Using some sample posts from my more recent RPs...

Vladimir Nabokov once.

Arthur Clarke once.

Dan Brown once.

Cory Doctorow twice.

[Shivery]

Cory Doctorow, J.K. Rowling, or Dan Brown!

Pretty good company, I suppose!

[JessicaHouse]

Tried a few different excerpts and got Agatha Christie, Stephen King, and Anne Rice. Most of the time, it was Agatha Christie.

[Hawkwood]

Of all the many authors I've read, there are a few that I consciously strive towards:

Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers &c.
Richard K Morgan - Altered Carbon
William Gibson - Neuromancer

I find a certain elegance in their sparse, lean prose; they are decidedly not purple.

[TeraMelon]

That's a fun site! I put in the three snippets and got:

- Stephen King x 1
- Dan Brown x2

Guess I have some new literature to check out! I've never read them before.

[AlekDelaunay]

I put in one story, a single paragraph blurb, another story, a short play, and a poem.

I got Anne Rice, Stephen King, Anne Rice again, Agatha Christie, & H. G. Wells.

I find the results to be a bit dubious.

[Aspen]

I tried it with three  different stories.  Agatha Christie came up for two and Anne Rice for the one. 

[Redhorn]

Arthur Clarke Thrice
Anne Rice Once

Looks like a trend...

[Nen]

Mario Puzo
Agatha Christie

I don't believe I've read either author's works, but it seems like they would be very different. Curious!

[RainbowKirin]

From the two pieces I posted Dan Brown and Agatha Christie

[Swidi]

Stephen King apparently.

[BluLibrarian]

Tried 3 pieces from three different stories and I got Agatha Christie, then Anne Rice, then Ruyard Kipling. Huh! Last time I tried one of these I couldn't get anything other than Stephen King, but he didn't show up at all this run. Interesting.

[Markus]

Arthur Clarke awesome.

[Saxman172]

I got Anne Rice twice from two different Roleplays, and Arthur Clark from my thesis. Makes sense that a science paper would be similar to a science fiction writer. Very cool.

[CrimsonAlt69]

Harry Harrison and George Orwell for my first two samples.

Mans got George Orwell, he really is god

[Galanthor]

ok, that's interesting.

I got Harry Harrison, but really couldn't see it, so out of curiosity, I threw an excerpt from Terry Pratchett in there.

Sir Pratchett got Arthur C. Clark. So...I would guess it works off of word choice rather than sentence structure or similar stuff, kinda curious given that it has an actual AI learning module in there.

[clonkertink]

ok, that's interesting.

I got Harry Harrison, but really couldn't see it, so out of curiosity, I threw an excerpt from Terry Pratchett in there.

Sir Pratchett got Arthur C. Clark. So...I would guess it works off of word choice rather than sentence structure or similar stuff, kinda curious given that it has an actual AI learning module in there.

As someone who's actually learning about Natural Language Processing for work, this actually doesn't surprise me too much. The models I've worked with don't really learn sentence structure. It's more like they learn, "What words appear close to other words?" In fact, a very common method is called "Bag of Words", where it actually jumbles up the order of words in a sentence.

[Galanthor]

Yeah in a way that's true, but for analyzing writing styles it'd go a long way to consider basic stuff like the length of the sentences, interpunctuation, length of paragraphs, usage of direct speech, etc.

[clonkertink]

Yeah in a way that's true, but for analyzing writing styles it'd go a long way to consider basic stuff like the length of the sentences, interpunctuation, length of paragraphs, usage of direct speech, etc.

Well, that's both the challenge and the beauty of machine learning. For all I know, the model might look at those things. But a big part of machine learning is letting the model find its own patterns. We don't really program an AI telling it "what to look for" so to speak. Instead, we just feed it data, and it figures out what patterns are most striking. In fact, you can't really lift up the hood to examine how the model makes these decisions, because it's just so complex.

[Ozolosterna]

I got Dan Brown after using a sample from my Now and Forevermore story.

[immabanana]

I got Agatha Christie 3 times in a row.

I think it's trying to tell me something.

[TheHangedOne]

I write like
Chuck Palahniuk (Me and My Monster)

I write like
Ursula K. Le Guin (Druid's Kassel)

I write like
Stephenie Meyer (Herald of the Storm)

I suppose the lesson here is that I don't actually write like anybody in particular.

[Amaris]

Or that your writing style changes depending on the content. You could write like all of them at different times.

I only put one sample it, but I got Stephen King

[Twisted Crow]

Stephen King didn't surprise me, as I get that from others even before doing this. I try to borrow his 'less is more' approach. I am not entirely sure that I execute this well, however.  ;D

Still, I try to take it as praise. He's not the author I wish I was, however (R.A. Salvatore). >_>

[Afsana]

xD I obviously write like Anne Rice. No matter the text I choose, I always end up with Anne Rice. Now I am not sure if that's a compliment, I couldn't stand reading most of her books, I found her writing style annoying.

[JustMildlyPervy]

I got Stephen King on one paragraph and Charles Dickens on the next.

I'm at peace with it.

[LeapingButterfly]

As I hit 'paste' I smirked and sort of knew it would be DFW.
And yep. No surprise there.

That's what you get for blending journalism / anecdotal story telling and semi overanalyzing your own work as you are writing it.
Now the question becomes, do I happen to write like him, or did becoming aware of his writing style pull me more to his writing style because it's useful for telling the type of stories I enjoy telling.
Does it matter?

Are those even valid questions?

Hi reader.
Bye.

[Inari]

Apparently, I am like Stephen King? ._.

-Edit-

I just took different posts and so far I have:

Steven King
Dan Brown
Ian Fleming

o.o

[Earlyworm]

Apparently Vladimir Nabokov, famous for Lolita.

I was hoping for Irving!

[Anithinum]

Dan Brown.....didn't expect that, but very happy about it. great writer.

[TheSithChicken]

Apparently I write like Harry Harrison. I have never read his writing so I don't really know what that says about me.

[Outcast]

Apparently most of my posts are like Anne Rice... but whenever I get more verbose I diverge into Leo Tolstoy or Daniel Defoe, and if I nerd out about sci-fi I'm Arthur C Clarke.

It would seem that my writing personality has serious identity issues. ;)

[Nico]

I write like
Agatha Christie

I adore her. <3 <3

[CassieBear]

After some different samples from different stories, I seem to stay around the range of Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, and Dan Brown.

[Britwitch]

Tried a few of my recent posts and every time I got either Anne Rice or Agatha Christie.

I'll take that. ;D

[Airindel]

Tried various recent posts all from contemporary modern day settings  and had Anne Rice and James Joyce multiple times.

[RedRose]

Stephen King, Dan brown, Kurt Vonnegut (new one), Anne Rice

[BehindYou]

Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen King with a sprinkling of J. D. Salinger and Anne Rice thrown in

[Dahling]

Several samples pulled from a plethora of years and genre and still... Anne Rice.

I suppose I can live with it.

[SinfulDreamWeaver]

Depending on which sample I use (I only tested three), I got either Vonnegut, Salinger, or Rice. Interesting... and probably not inaccurate.

[RainyHigh]

Using some of my recent posts here on E (I used 5 of them)... I got Cory Doctorow (got him three times, and I have no idea who he is), J.D. Salinger, and *whispers very quietly* Stephanie Meyer. :/

[Rosenrot]

William Gibson, baby! Cyberpunk isn't my thing but I know people like him so I'll take it.

I also got Anne Rice on a smuttier post which is flattering, however, I do not see it. It's probably because vampire.

[Forest Huntress]

I write like

Vladimir Nabokov, Very interesting.

[Fairehawke]

Ooo Oscar Wilde! What a very kewl tool.

[Nouhime]

Stephen King! It is not what I expected, but I am happy with that.

[Lovely Complex]

Stephen King! It is not what I expected, but I am happy with that.

I was expecting him either but now, I get Anna Rice. :D

[Nouhime]

I was expecting him either but now, I get Anna Rice. :D

I love her so much, I would be very happy to get her. However I don't think there is a bad answer for me. Looking at what other people got as a result I'd be happy any of these writers.

[Asfa]

I submitted one of my older works and it turned out as Ray Bradbury  :D
I only knew him for Fahrenheit 451 but I never read his works, I am curious to see if there are actually any similarities.

[Geraint]

I stumbled across this yesterday, and remember taking it a long time ago, though I couldn't find my results.

But it did make me curious for a somewhat different reason.  I play a lot of characters, and I always wonder if I'm succeeding in giving them separate voices.  So I wasn't so interested in who I wrote like as I was about  as I was in how different they sounded.  So I picked ten of my most active characters to test and this is what I got.

2 Kurt Vonnegut
2 Leo Tolstoy
2 William Gibson (which was a surprise since I've not read any of his work)
1 Charles Dickens 
1 Mario Puzo
1 Anne Rice
1 David Foster Wallace (who I frankly had never heard of)

Yeah I was hoping for at least one Terry Pratchett, but I was definitely pleased by the spread

[Forsaken]

My first copy and paste of one of my role plays got David Foster Wallace, yeah I never heard of him either, so I pasted his blurb below. The second RP of mine I posted I got Mark Twain which I am quite happy with.

I did a Third copy and paste, this time a poem I wrote and got Stephanie Meyer. Cringes...


David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an award-winning American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. In 2005, Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years". Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011, and in 2012 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

[Nachtmahr]

4 x Anne Rice and a single James Joyce.

While I'm flattered, seeing as I'm a big fan of Rice's work, I wouldn't compare myself to her. Not that I had a lot of faith in the site to begin with, seeing as a lot of people with - in my opinion - wildly different writing styles, have gotten similar results. :P It's a fun idea, though.

[Datawych]

Apparently my submissive characters read like Anne Rice, my dominant ones like Isaac Asimov.

O_o

[RedPhoenix]

Apparently my submissive characters read like Anne Rice, my dominant ones like Isaac Asimov.

O_o

Nice.

[yuno47]

I got Lewis Carroll oh my this is the best answer ever!! (for me at least!) I've always loved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass :))

[Tsumugi]

arthur clarke, anne rice, cory doctorow, david foster wallace, with a bias towards anne rice and in one more space orientated sample, isaac assimov

[Lux12]

According to multiple submissions of different pieces, the most common results are Mary Shelly, H.P. Lovecraft, James Joyce, Shakespeare, and Anne Rice

[Lyrical]

I did it 2x

Apparently I must be best suited for sparkly vampires.. : Stephanie Meyer
https://iwl.me/s/85a62134

&

.. some sci-fi?  - Isaac Asimov
https://iwl.me/s/726f1bdc

So sparkly space vampires it is!

[Story Tale]

I tried three different paragraphs. Twice I got Anne Rice and the third was Vladimir Nabokov.

[TeamVelma]

A big chunk of text got me James Joyce, a smaller bit got me Anne Rice.  It seems both also wrote dodgy Fan Fiction as well :-)

[DomesticViking]

I got Neil Gaiman and Rudyard Kipling.

[Leon Weber]

after plugging in several different posts I got: Rowling, Douglas Adams, a Journalist by the name of Cory Doctorow, and Anne Rice

[Thufir Hawat]

I decided to do several tests with E. posts... >:)

I write like
Arthur Clarke
https://iwl.me/s/a19b4b4

Kurt Vonegut
https://iwl.me/s/8ccf5154

I write like
Dan Brown
...wut?
https://iwl.me/s/cfe99843

I write like
James Joyce
https://iwl.me/s/d760c1b4

I write like
J.K.Rowlings
https://iwl.me/s/32618206


I'm most flattered by most of these...but Dan Brown? Seriously? Was this because of words like "pentagram" and "daimon" in the text ;D?
I'd have preferred Coelho 8-).

[Thufir Hawat]

I decided to do several tests with E. posts... >:)

I write like
Arthur Clarke
https://iwl.me/s/a19b4b4

Kurt Vonegut
https://iwl.me/s/8ccf5154

I write like
Dan Brown
...wut?
https://iwl.me/s/cfe99843

I write like
James Joyce
https://iwl.me/s/d760c1b4

I write like
J.K.Rowlings
https://iwl.me/s/32618206


I'm most flattered by most of these...but Dan Brown? Seriously? Was this because of words like "pentagram" and "daimon" in the text ;D?
I'd have preferred Coelho 8-).

And, for a post that I made after the previous one:
I write like
Anne Rice

https://iwl.me/s/fdfaad03

...I guess I'm confusing the poor app ;D!

[BlueOrange]

Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Brown (when I feed it two things I wrote that I really liked). Embarrassingly, I’ve not read either of them.

[Dale]

Interesting! I like trying these out.

Sample 1 Mario Puzo and sample 2 Anne Rice - both RP. 1. (haven't read either of these) Foreign words  - smut.

Sample 3 Chuck Palahniuk and sample 5 Ursula K LeGuin - both RP2. (haven't read either of these) modern - dragon mentioned once.

Sample 6 J.R.R. Tolkien  (long sample) A LOTR RP

Sample 7 Neil Gaiman (long sample) Fantasy RP.

Sample 8 (from a decade old RP) Douglas Adams.

Conclusion drawn -  I have my own writing style which I bend to fit an RP. ;D

[Sagitta]

Plugged in a few samples and got James Fenimore Cooper, Ian Fleming, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and James Joyce. Rowling was only because of the Harry Potter RPs, I should think.

[Unholy]

I plugged in a few posts of mine (tried to select longer posts so the tool had something to properly analyze) and these two names popped up most for me:

- Cory Doctorow
- James Joyce

[Stardusk]

I got Cory Doctorow with my more dialogue heavy post and I got Stephen King with my more narrative post.

[Rayne]

Welp just got Anne Rice 4 times in a row and William Gibson once in the post with the heaviest amount of cursing XD Interesting.

[LemonMelon]

In one test I got Arthur Conan Doyle, while in another Agatha Christie. I can say that I often unintentionally tend to write in a somewhat dated and dry style, probably due to having read far too many scientific research papers over the past years.

[Murdoc Is God]

I write like
Cory Doctorow

Oh me oh my how flattered I am.

[Istrina]

From two long samples I got myself the Mark Twain-badge twice which I hadn't been expecting.

[Silvered Sutures]

I got Edgar Allan Poe three times in a row.
Then I tried a few more samples and got Anne Rice, Cory Doctorow, Dan Brown, and Anne Rice again.
Then back to Poe.

[Pain]

I write like James Joyce apparently.

[Silver]

I've tried a few different things that I have written, interesting to say the very least. Will make a note to do this again in December to see what else I get with future writing.

P. G. Wodehouse - Sample 1 from A Friend In Need.

Harry Harrison - Sample 2 from Is it still a blind date when everyone can see, Chapter 1

William Gibson - Sample 3 from In Dreams

James Joyce - Sample 4 from a story Off Site.

[Pain]

Here's the one that I got doing Picture This - "New Beginnings" - Dan Brown.

[Ryven]

Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Stephen King, apparently.

[Lilias]

After six samples, I got Leo Tolstoy (x2), Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Clarke, and Stephenie Meyer. I'll take the eclecticism as a compliment.

That was five years ago. Today I got Doyle again, Anne Rice x 2, and Margaret Atwood. Development AND range!

[RainyHigh]

Using some of my recent posts here on E (I used 5 of them)... I got Cory Doctorow (got him three times, and I have no idea who he is), J.D. Salinger, and *whispers very quietly* Stephanie Meyer. :/

It's been over a year, and I decided to copy Lilias and try this again.

Using five recent posts and got: Cory Doctorow (again), Anne Rice x2, James Joyce, and Harry Harrison. I'm just glad to see more variety. XD

[Kendra]

Ah, I've never done this so decided to give it a go.

I used three different posts from E - 2 of which were from my Hogwarts game, for those particular posts 1 got Jk Rowling and the other got Anne Rice. I divided the JK Rowling post so that the excerpt I put in would have no words at all associated with Hogwarts and I got James Joyce.

A solo post of mine came up with Dan Brown.

[Greenthorn]

I got Anne Rice for one post and Leo Tolstoy for another!

[Rabbit]

Anne Rice


I need to go back through earlier posts and see if my writing has changed.

[IntrusiveThots]

Bram Stoker.

Flattered as I am, I strongly disagree.