Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 1:19pm

You Write Like (Fill in the blank)

 

Hattip to Dale Price at Dyspeptic Mutterings.  Go here to have your writing style analyzed.  To my chagrin I was advised that I write like the late David Foster Wallace.  Oh well, I’ve never given up my day job!

My second go round I was told that I write like Margaret Mitchell.  Now admittedly that was from one of my Civil War posts, but even so!

Third time around I was told that I write like Cory Doctorow.  I think I will quit while I am behind.

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Jay Anderson
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 1:38pm

James Joyce here.

Given my love/hate relationship with said author, I’m not sure what to think of this.

John Henry
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 1:47pm

David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, and Stephen King…I may never write again.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:07pm

David Foster Wallace and Margaret Atwood. Yikes!!!

What’s with Wallace?

Jonathan
Jonathan
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:08pm

What I liked doing was seeing just how accurate the measurement system was.

Stephen King = Stephen King
Wallace = Dan Brown or Stephen King
James Joyce = James Joyce
Margaret Mitchell = Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Atwood = HG Wells
HG Wells = HG Wells

Paul Zummo
Admin
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:08pm

Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Doctorow. That is in ascending order of the relative snarkiness of my selection, for what it’s worth.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:10pm

So I write like Dan Brown or HG Wells. That’s some improvement.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:15pm

Agreed, Phillip.

Jay Anderson
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:15pm

The more I think about it, the less I like it.

“You write like … some guy who wrote incomprehensible drivel and who only elitist pseudo-sophisticates consider to be some sort of genius.”

Jonathan
Jonathan
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:20pm

That’s very good, Jay.

Art Deco
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:29pm

H.P. Lovecraft.

Anthony
Anthony
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:48pm

J.D. Salinger.

Makes sense. I’ve got angst, loathing and self-loathing down pretty well. Bring on the accolades and isolation!

Blackadder
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 2:53pm

George Orwell.

Joe Hargrave
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 4:37pm

I don’t trust this thing at all.

I plugged in a few different blog posts and got different answers each time. If you write about Catholicism, you get Dan Brown. If you write about guns, you get Mario Puzo.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 4:54pm

Dan Brown and vacuum cleaners. I guess they both…

Jay Anderson
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 5:30pm

… suck?

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 6:05pm

Bingo.

Art Deco
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 6:19pm

I plugged in a few different blog posts and got different answers each time.

I’ve tried four posts. H.P. Lovecraft twice and David Foster Wallace twice.

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Thursday, July 22, AD 2010 6:52pm

Review of a play with a lot of Italian characters = Mario Puzo.

Review of a stage musical based on fairy tale characters = Edgar Allan Poe.

Yesterday’s post on the KKK and Progressivism = H.P. Lovecraft (?!)

Morning's Minion
Friday, July 23, AD 2010 9:43am

James Joyce.

Jay Anderson
Friday, July 23, AD 2010 11:17am

MM,

We’re peas in a pod, you and I.

😉

RL
RL
Friday, July 23, AD 2010 12:21pm

A song played on a gong couldn’t have been more wrong. I knew this was the biggest flop since the Spruce Goose when the answer appeared Dr. Seuss.

Mike Petrik
Mike Petrik
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2010 9:08am

Hilarious. One entry was Wallace, another Lovecraft, another Poe, and yet another Orwell. Very eclectic writer am I. Heh.

John Henry
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2010 9:14am

Like Whitman, you must contain multitudes, Mike.

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