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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2010-07-13 06:32 pm
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Meme Me Up!


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.
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] pixelcurious.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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).