I write like...

[deborahjross]

a complete schizophrenic. I ran 5 chapters of the WIP through the meme and found out I write like:

Margaret Atwood
Mario Puzo
Dan Brown
J. K. Rowling
Vladimir Nabokov

all in the same book! Am I not versatile??? (or demented....)

Comments

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Oh, my. On the other hand, some of that is pretty good company, no?

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Good, yes... well, some of them. Dan Brown sells in-your-dreams well, but his prose is really dreadful.

I wonder if the analyzer just looks at sentence/paragraph length?

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

Yes, and Puzo tends to be bit...bloated? At least those two were the ones I wasn't including.

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

I did the meme myself. I put in a number of entries to test the "sentence/paragraph length" theory. I think that's part of it, but there is something a little more sophisticated going on. When I ran two of the samples I used through the "readability" application (checks paragraph length, sentence length, average word length) two of them were nearly identical, but they came back with one tagged for Lovecraft and one tagged for Lewis Carroll. So I think there is also something in the program that checks for specific "tonal" cues.

On the other hand, other than the ubiquitous Mr. Brown (which seems to come up in any passage with fairly short paragraphs, even if the sentences are sophisticated), I got Lovecraft, Carroll, and James Joyce.

So, I'll just glow for a few minutes, basking in the illusion.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You write like
Deborah J. Ross

Your writing is unique, and grows and changes as you do Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Did you design that one or am I on their list?

I do try to "stay true" to my own voice, although in the case of the Darkover books, I may sometimes use phrases or rhythms (word choice, sentence structure, paragraph length) to maintain consistency with what Marion wrote.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I confess, I played with the HTML.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Or, possibly, it's a really naff piece of software...?

(Tho' I shouldn't grumble: it tagged me as Vonnegut, and I've been living off that all day...)

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wondered about the analyzer. Still, anything that energizes one's day, especially one's writing, can't be all bad.

[stellatangdele.livejournal.com]

I wonder what would happen if I ran some nonfiction through it?

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

OOh! Great and great-wicked idea! Try it and let us know!!!

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

The 7 pieces I ran through were all non-fiction of the essay variety.