I'm pretty happy with my results:
Try it yourself. It's a pretty good way to waste 30 seconds or so.
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Who do you write like?
Posted on: July 18, 2010 6:47 PM, by Christie Wilcox
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Congratulations. Margaret Atwood tried it herself, guess who she writes like?
Posted by: EMJ
| July 18, 2010 7:29 PM
I pasted in the conclusion paragraphs from my thesis... I got Margaret Atwood, too. I guess I'll have to read something she's written now...
Posted by: Matt | July 18, 2010 9:58 PM
Based on a "recent" post from my blog, as well as part of the methodology and then the conclusions section of my thesis, I write like Isaac Asimov. I'm impressed that three different chunks of text gave the a consistent answer like that :p
Posted by: Joel | July 18, 2010 10:59 PM
I tried three different blog posts and got three different writers. :-(
Posted by: AmoebaMike | July 19, 2010 4:32 AM
I tried a few different excerpts from this blog post and got the following results:
Dan Brown
Cory Doctorow
James Joyce
David Foster Wallace
Dan Brown
I also tried a section from a draft of a thesis chapter:
David Foster Wallace
Hmmm...
Posted by: Paul | July 19, 2010 4:50 AM
The first blogger I saw to have written about this was @JuneCasagrande. I won't repeat everything I said to her, but here are some of my most interesting results.
One scene from a fantasy fiction story I wrote in the nineties turned out to be written in the style of J. K. Rowling, but if I simply replaced every occurence of the word "wizard" with the word "magician", then suddenly it was written in the style of Ray Bradbury.
Among my other results, an essay that I wrote a few years ago as a parody of obscure, pointless, rambling essays, turned out to be written in the style of Harry Harrison, which is so much the worse for Harry Harrison.
And a short children's poem of mine about elephants and rabbits was written in the style of Douglas Adams. I'm happy with that result.
Posted by: Adrian Morgan | July 19, 2010 6:02 AM
Making Light has two devastating posts about this site and its little game.
Apparently the "test" is based on nothing more than vocabulary lists - nothing stylistic beyond that at all - and the whole setup is run by a sleazeball hyperchristian publisher trying to rope suckers into a vanity press hu$tle.
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler
| July 19, 2010 6:06 AM
It would be pretty funny if I wrote like myself. But my blogs don't read like my books. A short post just isn't a novel.
Posted by: Lilian Nattel | July 19, 2010 12:12 PM