Jul 192010
I Write Like is a website that analyses a sample of writing and finds the closest match to a famous author’s style. Running through a couple of my favourite entries from this blog gives the following result:
Could be worse. I did read an awful lot of Arthur C. Clarke’s output when I was younger so I supposed it rubbed off on me.
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I write like William Gibson apparently. Now that is cool.
I am confused, I pasted a work document, and it said I write like Cory Doctorow. Then I pasted an email and it said I write like Stephen King.
Clearly my emails are much simpler and feature obvious plot devices.
You write like Stephen King? Taking 1600 pages to tell a 400 page story? Still, there are worse writers out there.
I’m just glad it didn’t say I write like a collaboration between Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee, because those books were awful.