I Write Like

The Vault Dweller

The Vault Dweller

always looking for water.
Check this out. A new and suddenly viral website takes a small portion of writing from you (say a few paragraphs) and uses the sentence structure and word choice to find a famous author of similar style.

http://iwl.me/

I write like...David Foster Wallace. Maybe I'll read a book by him now...

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
Interesting site, I didn't have a really good example of my writing but this is what I got:
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I write like...

Leo Tolstoy for university writing.
Jonathan Swift for GameBanshee.

That makes an inordinate amount of sense, to be honest.
 
Oh boy, a new way to ward off boredom! For a few seconds anyway.

I tried a good portion of a novel I'm writing (haha, yeah, I laugh too), and it says I write like David Foster Wallace as well. Never even heard of him to be honest. Then I tried a single chapter and it says I write like Isaac Asimov. Another chapter like Chuck Palahniuk. And another like James Joyce. Hmm... I should really read more often.

I got a kick out of this. Thanks for sharing.

(This post was written like James Joyce, apparently.)
 
So, I wrote this, really off the top of my head:
[spoiler:d578d8fdc1]Cold. Always cold.
The frigid winds blew through the trees, sending large clumps of snow down to the ground, so that it could simply join together with the pre-existing snow on the ground. The blizzard had long since passed, the moon was visible in the clear night sky, and without the long-dead city's light to blot the stars out, they were all clearly visible too.

It has been 5 years since the Earth's star wiped away modern human civilization. Man had relied on energy for so long, they could simply not live with the bare essentials anymore. Living wasn't enough; they had to control, be entertained, and transport themselves with electronics. Human reality was crushed by the universe's reality; something that is commonplace throughout trillions and trillions of light years of space and time. They were nothing. If the milky way was a penny in the cosmos, the sun alone would be smaller than an atom. Humans did not matter. They weren't even grains of dust in the whole picture. Nothing changed, in the grand scheme of things. Humans died off slowly, due to their incompetence, and the planet was retaken by nature. Nothing ever changed. Nothing.[/spoiler:d578d8fdc1]
And I got this:
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If the system isn't flawed, then holy shit I need to write more.
 
I'm a bit curious about how both my rp character's bio *and* my honors thesis final for university both comment that I write like Dan Brown...
 
Just tried a short story I wrote. Says it's like Stephen King. Pffhahaahaha...
 
Interesting. How about a quick experiment...

the yes said balloon wow can you know it i mean yellow, fosterson picklethrob. why does the tube black roses thundercloud, and several.
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Ray Bradbury.



Adding 'backwards' to the end so that the text reads:

the yes said balloon wow can you know it i mean yellow, fosterson picklethrob. why does the tube black roses thundercloud, and several backwards.
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And I get Douglas Adams.



By adding 'introversion' to the end:

the yes said balloon wow can you know it i mean yellow, fosterson picklethrob. why does the tube black roses thundercloud, and several backwards introversion.
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I get Ursula K. Le Guin.


Regardless of the text, you are shown this:

Great job! Do you want to get your book published?

"I have personally read through thousands of book proposals in my career as a publisher and agent. I know what these professionals are looking for—and what they are not looking for."
— Michael Hyatt, Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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Which then links you to a site pushing e-books on how to get published (For the low low price of $19.97 each!).



I fucking lol'd. Hard.

What a crock of shit.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
What a crock of shit.
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Does anyone actually take these kinds of websites seriously? Well, I suppose there are some suckers.

Just another time waster.
 
verevoof said:
Does anyone actually take these kinds of websites seriously? Well, I suppose there are some suckers.

Just another time waster.
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Nothing wrong with the random author generator itself, but when you start using it to try and push a product, that's when it becomes a royal crock of shit.
 
Funny thing: I typed in a complete paragraph from 'Breakfast of Champions' By Kurt Vonnegut and the computer said: "I write like Stephen King".

'Nuff said, fo sure.

EDIT: I think it's keyword based and doesn't mind style one bit.

If you enter some Getrude Stein crap (using metric schemes from her "Tender Buttons") that uses words from Douglas Adams' books, like so:

"The Captain drove a Ford and went stellar. Stellar Captain in a Ford. The universe was filled with life. Planets. The sun. The Captain drove a Ford in the universe.
What do you mean that the warp warp warp warp warp thingimajig doesn't do interstellar? In the restaurant at the end of the universe. Galaxy. Universe. Radius. Sun. Solar. The captain fucked Ford in the restaurant."

well, then your comp will say: "I write like Douglas Adams."

Similarly, this fragments says I write like James Joyce, because I'm just using some of his words:

"I fucked a chick in Dublin. On the ladder of life life was like a bloom, said Molly. Everything is full of Bloom, boom, boom. A hattrick for Dublin. Streets full of Irish melancholy. Insomnia for the meek. I am an artist and this is my portrait. Like the Greeks, like Leopold and Hades. The stare of a cyclops."

So yeah: Not impressed at all. :roll:


EDIT 2


If you enter a repetitive sequence like:

"fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck [...]"

I write like William Gibson.

I add two words to this sequence: "portrait" + "artist"= I write like Chuck Palahniuk (I expected Joyce, though).

I add two words: "women" + "sexuality" = I write like David Foster Wallace

I add three words: "life" + "hell" + "eternity" = I write like Stephen King

Pffffffffffffffff... THere's a system in there, ad it's rotten like the state of Denmark.
 
"yo dawg, i herd you like "I Write Like," so we put bullshit in yo bullshit."

I write like P. G. Wodehouse.

:lol:
 
"Hello, little birdy…eeehhh…was that nicey, er yum yum."

And the response is - I write like James Joyce.

I never realized the greatest English writer of the 20th century was mildly retarded… :shock:
 
Not even going to try this stuff...
alec said:
Pffffffffffffffff... THere's a system in there, ad it's rotten like the state of Denmark.
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LOL'ed

Bravo :clap:
 
Man, David Foster Wallace must suck. He is like everywhere.
-James Joyce
 
Flick: Hey derm I'm Flick. What the fuck do you want, huh?
Chosen One: What's with the wacky accent, Flick?
Flick: What you talkin' about? You think I'm a fucking stupid pirla? Some dumb filio di puttana? You think I'm some kinda clown? Am I here to amuse you, is that it?
Chosen One: Yeah, that's right, shithead. And nothing's going to amuse me more than your death-throes.


Dan Brown...
 
What a bunch of killjoys in this thread.

Interesting. How about a quick experiment...
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For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).
Not saying it's for real, we all know what these kinds of sites are for, even a real style analyst can't match you up with authors, but ignoring its instructions to "test" it is asinine. It's obviously keyword-based, I figured as much from it tying my uni writings to Tolstoy (use of Russian names, I'd guess), and obviously in short sentences the low amount of keywords can tilt the balance quickly.

At least some of the sentence-tests are funny tho, but c'mon, why so serious?
 
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