I write like...

[Starbeam]

Neat kinda writing analyzer thingie that tells you who you write like.  I pasted chunks from my current WIP and got Dan Brown, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood.  Other stories came up with Lewis Carroll, Arthur C Clarke, and Ursula K LeGuin.  So, who do you write like?

[Jaeh]

I slipped in a few chunks from 4 different projects I'm working on and I got Margaret Mitchell, William Gibson, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace. Weird.
I'd try it again with a more recent project when I have the said project written down.

neat website, btw.

[Starbeam]

Earlier on Twitter, Neil Gaiman said he put in a couple chunks from Anansi Boys, and the first one came back as Stephen King, the second as JRR Tolkien.

[tiny[but]fierce]

The few chunks of my own fiction that I put in came up as Stephen King, David Foster Wallace and Mary Shelly

[Apocrypha]

How does it work exactly, by analyzing your word usage?  Particular words are flagged to particular writers?

[KWPech]

Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, and H.G. Wells.
I can live with that.

[KevinEvans]

Snork,

Apperently we write like Ian Fleming

Regards,
Kevin

[belial.1980]

Dan Brown, Ian Flemming, and William Shakespeare. Hmmm.

[Terminalvelocityturkey]

Arthur C Clark and Dan Brown here it seems.

[LizW65]

Kurt Vonnegut.   

[Gruud]

I dropped in three different samples, and they came up with:

Charles Dickens
H.G. Wells
James Fenimore Cooper

I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Perhaps they're trying to tell me my writing is old fashioned?

I'm always a ittle suspicious of stuff like this though.

Ive seen some (what DnD character are you, what fantasy race are you, etc.) where you could put in the exact same entries and it would give you different outcomes each time.

Which basically means they're just running a randomizer.

Anyone care to opine on my outcomes?

[Starbeam]

This one's not a randomizer--I put in the same sample just now as the first one I did last night and got the same thing.

And I wouldn't say that those authors mean you write old fashioned, but maybe more that you're more detailed in what you write.

[Apocrypha]

I'm not sure on the accuracy on this  

I put in two sections of the same piece of fiction and got Stephen King and Isaac Asimov from a piece of work that is neither horror or SF.

One that was close was from another piece of work that gave me Chuck Palahniuk.

I actually then put in a piece of what is considered SF and it told me I wrote like William Shakespeare  lol

[Starbeam]

I don't think it's so much to do with genre--I put in three chunks from one piece and got Dan Brown, King, and Margaret Atwood.  And it's an urban fantasy.  I think it's more going by the words that're used, or something like that.  I didn't really try looking around the site to see if it was explained.

[Spot]

Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace.