7 Comments

1. Michael E. Lopez says:

   July 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm

   Apparently I write like a schizophrenic. I put in a bunch of different types of writing, and got widely divergent results. This leads me to believe that the software (which, let us be honest, is just for fun and marketing purposes) is only tracking really superficial characteristics. But maybe I’m just inconsistent.

   Blog Posts: (3 full posts)
   Edgar Allen Poe
   Dan Brown
   David Foster Wallace

   Fiction: (3 large excerpts from 3 separate stories)
   Neil Gaiman
   Stephen King
   Stephen King

   Letters of Recommendation Written for Students: (4)
   David Foster Wallace
   David Foster Wallace
   HP Lovecraft
   Edgar Allen Poe

   Academic Writing in Philosophy: (3 separate papers in their entirety)
   Vladimir Nabakov
   David Foster Wallace
   Mary Shelley

   Poems: (3 poems written in across 15 years)
   David Foster Wallace
   William Shakespeare
   Bram Stoker

   Poems: (3 separate poems written in the same year)
   James Fenimore Cooper
   Dan Brown
   James Joyce
2. david foster says:

   July 15, 2010 at 7:15 pm

   Based on my essay Faustian Ambition, I write like Kurt Vonnegut.

   But based on a more directly political blog post, I write like Ursula K Le Guin.
3. Laura(southernxyl) says:

   July 16, 2010 at 1:34 am

   I got David Foster Wallace (who the heck is that?) and Ursula Le Guin from my most recent two blog posts.
4. Conservative English PhD says:

   July 17, 2010 at 12:30 am

   I did a piece of academic writing and was told I write like Douglas Adams.

   I did part of my dissertation and got David Foster Wallace.

   A blog post also came up with David Foster Wallace.

   A newspaper article gave me David Foster Wallace as well.

   And then an article for a book got me Douglas Adams.

   So, I’m 3 parts David Foster Wallace and two parts Douglas Adams.
5. TheBigHenry says:

   July 17, 2010 at 3:44 pm

   I used a recent post of mine and it’s Ian Fleming for me. Just call me Bond … James Bond.

   Then, just for grins, I typed in the standard keyboard test, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and guess who else writes like that: James Joyce!
6. dossier says:

   July 20, 2010 at 8:23 pm

   After looking at this for a week, I couldn’t resist any longer and entered 3 consecutive chapters I wrote one at a time. Chapters 1 and 3 said Chuck Palahniuk, chapter 2 said David Foster Wallace.
7. Theresa says:

   September 7, 2010 at 10:21 pm

   I apparently write like Lovecraft, which is weird, because I never once used the words “eldritch” or “chthonic.”