Her post suggested THIS.
Basically you copy and paste your writing onto the above site before wording and expressions are statistically analysed to pair you with a famous author your style most resembles.
My post yesterday refering to Antonio Scurati was Dan Brown, whereas my tango post was like Raymond Chandler. And my homage to Bianca, my bicycle, a few days ago resembles the style of James Fenimore Cooper so much that I'm surprised somebody hasn't asked to turn it into a MOVIE already. I guess I just should keep copy/pasting until I get to James Joyce... (a girl can always dream now, can't she?)
PS. Help! It's so addictive! I just copy/pasted the above paragraphs and it says I'm being Vladimir Nabokov-like. Well, it's 1.30am now...and I'm all titillated after this activity as well as having come back from the theatre where I saw Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" that I had better be off to bed before I start writing a masterpiece! Or a bestseller at worst! (Well a girl can dream, can't she?) Goodnight.
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I copied and pasted the link into my favorites. This is going to be hilarious. It will probably tell me I write like... I don't know... someone really awful. Should be hilarious.
Well that IS interesting. I'd be afraid to see what they would say of mine. Something along the lines of "Charlie Brown":)
Robin - As the title of this post says - "JUST FOR FUN"...I don't think we should let it go to our heads... It is one thing being Nabokov-like and quite another to actually be.
Farmgirl Paints - I think Charlie Brown was a genius. Your writing style is not "like" anybody else's - it is original and that is what makes it precious. I guess it is easier to write like someone than to sit down and actually dare to BE YOURSELF!
I'm looking forward to trying this out this evening. Thanks for sharing something fun.
I've never thought my writing was good enough, interesting enough, or readable enough to publish in any format. It's just a place that I can come and 'bleck' sometimes, and if someone else finds it good enough to read ... who am I to differ.
I think this is totally gonna be addictive! Word of advice: if you want to look like you write like James Joyce try super long run-on sentences and very little punctuation. Good luck! ;)
Sharon and Phoenix - I put in an excerpt of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and it said he was James Joyce...and then I put in some James Joyce (from "The Dubliners") and it said he was Robert Louis Stevenson...so, so much for that!
LJ - Do you really think that all those who get published are really great writers and those who don't get published aren't? I don't...Sometimes it just has to do with smooching. I guess the test of time is what sorts them out. Oh, and then there's the romance fiction genre (utter trash written simply to be consumed as such)...
I got Dan Brown. Hmm, I guess it means I write like a bestseller? ;)
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