Meme Me Up!

[strangetomato]

I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Since the tool says it uses word choice and writing style, I wonder if my Canadian spelling had anything to do with it. *shrugs* I'm more than happy to be compared to Ms. Atwood, either way.

Runners up were Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk. I analyzed a whole pile of stuff, and these were the three that turned up the most.

Comments

[will-o-whisper.livejournal.com]

The first two works I tried this meme with, I got Dan Brown.

I cried.

I've gotten James Joyce and Stephen King a lot, and a few H. P. Lovecraft (???). I don't think the actual style is all that different across my work, so apparently this meme thinks all these writers are pretty much the same and interchangeable? Possibly, it's focusing more on content, but that doesn't explain King or Lovecraft to me. So that would make me yet another person wondering about criteria here.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'd cry, too. XD (Though I did read The DaVinci Code and it's hard to argue that it's a page turner, at least.)

H.P. Lovecraft? That's cool.

I'd definitely suggest posting a lot of different to try to see a pattern in it. I was getting so many different things, I was starting to think I obviously had no style whatsoever, but repeated postings (good thing I have many, many S,HWC chapters handy here) did show a pattern for me.

I'd love to know more about how it works, too.

[will-o-whisper.livejournal.com]

Step aside, Cthulhu, I've got your new generation of insanity and horror right here. Or something. I must not read enough Lovecraft, because I really have no idea what would have pinged him.

I found Joyce came up a lot for my short stories and blog posts, while my smut is apparently pure Palahniuk, which was kind of interesting (and flattering, at least in Joyce's case :P). I'm choosing to ignore the Dan Brown insults ;(.

It's a lot of fun, anyway! I only wish the results didn't tend so strongly towards straight white men. Few people seem to be getting women, and I don't think I've seen any LGBTQ writers or people of color; if they're there, there aren't many of them.