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

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I got Harry Harrison once, too, and I think it was a regular journal entry that I posted to see how it would measure up to the fictional writing. Maybe he has a very conversational style?

I'm very curious, too. I got so many different authors for different pieces, I was starting to feel like it must be random. (My SO even suggested trying the same thing twice to test it, which confirms that it isn't.) These three did turn up about 4-5 times each vs. 1-2 for other authors, so that seems to show a logic in the way it works.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will try some more (later, after I goof around with sims!) But I really wonder if there's much of anything to it... maybe it's just a big joke on all of us narcissistic writers, trying to see who of the big names we measure up to.

Yours is only the second I've seen with a female author, also, which makes me think there's something to the criticisms. (We all write like white men.)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it is pretty silly, when it comes down to it. If I use about the same percentage of quotation marks or semicolons as some famous author, that really doesn't say a lot about my writing skill, for better or worse.

I saw that comment about the lack of female authors, and I would hope they'd try to make the representation as equal as it could be (like art and film and everything else, we're going to be outnumbered by men, though I would have imagined that the writing world would be slightly more even). I had J.K. Rowling once, also. Is that the other one you saw?

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Yes, J.K. Rowling was the other female author I saw. Though from someone who put in tons of writing samples from various authors (not their own) I also saw Jane Austen. So that's three...

I'm truly not bent out of shape about it. Just amused at myself, last night when I encountered it, trying to figure out why I got Jack London (and realizing it probably had nothing much to do with my actual writing skill).