Comments on: Who knew?

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:21:23 +0000

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

By: dossier

dossier — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:23:47 +0000

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.

By: TheBigHenry

TheBigHenry — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:44:26 +0000

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!

By: Conservative English PhD

Conservative English PhD — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:30:53 +0000

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.

By: Laura(southernxyl)

Laura(southernxyl) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:34:58 +0000

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

By: david foster

david foster — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:15:58 +0000

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.

By: Michael E. Lopez

Michael E. Lopez — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:12:55 +0000

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