I ran across a post on Will Wheaton’s blog where he ran the text analyzer on I Write Like on his writing and it told him he wrote like Cory Doctorow.
So, of course, I had to see who I write like.
The result:
I didn’t recognize the name, but I did recognize this awesome graduation speech he gave at Kenyon (full version here).
Now I want to read one of his books to see if he writes like me. 😉
I tried the text analysis on another story of mine, one where I had intentionally tried to write in the style of P. G. Wodehouse. I got the same answer – David Foster Wallace. But apparently Wodehouse is not in the database.
Who do you write like?
Space&Aliens 
Ah, but what happens if you paste in a bit of David Foster Wallace?
One paragraph, chosen at random from the middle of his essay “E Unibus Pluram” (which is what I happen to be reading) says . . . David Foster Wallace.
Hmmm. It says that HP Lovecraft writes like Arthur C Clarke, though, and Arthur C Clarke writes like Mary Shelley. Lovecraft always confuses writing tests.
The good news is that I apparently write like either Stephen King or Jane Austen, depending on whether I’m writing a horror thriller or a steampunk mystery.:)
That is interesting since both Arthur C Clarke and H P Lovecraft are in the database.
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