Thursday, January 6, 2011

I Write Like JK Rowling, Bram Stoker, JRR Tolkien, Stephen King and Others

I found a really fun website for writers to play with. It’s called I Write Like and you copy and paste a paragraph or two then the website spits out the name of an author your writing resembles. So I submitted paragraphs from several sections of Conscientia, Book 2 of The Seraphym Wars Series, one of my upcoming novels and got these badges:


I write like
J. K. Rowling
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I write like
Bram Stoker
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I write like
Neil Gaiman
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Needless to say I was thrilled. Then I decided to submit something from a different book of mine. I picked Harpies, Book 3 of the Seraphym Wars Series. I received the following badges depending on where in the book I pulled a paragraph from:


I write like
Cory Doctorow
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I write like
Rudyard Kipling
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I write like
Ray Bradbury
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I write like
J. R. R. Tolkien
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!


By this time I was completely amused and hooked. If I could really write like any of these awesome authors I would be ecstatic. Lastly I decided to check out Odessa, Book 1 of the Seraphym Wars Series, coming out in April. Here are the badges for paragraphs from the beginning, middle and end of the novel.


I write like
Stephenie Meyer
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I write like
J. R. R. Tolkien
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I write like
Harry Harrison
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I write like
James Joyce
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!


Next I submitted most of a short horror story, just for kicks. It is the Free Read on my website Charles Creevey Chops His Sweetie. And the badge I was awarded was:


I write like
Stephen King
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

How exciting! I LOVE Stephen King's work. Go to http://rryalsrussell.com and read it for yourself, see if you think I Write Like is close to being right. Even if it’s not, it’s something to strive toward. By the time I'd run all of this through the site I had been compared to JK Rowling three times and JRR Tolkien four times. Since they were the two authors' works I held in my head while writing, maybe I came close after all. There was only one author I would have enjoyed seeing and didn't. Ernest Hemingway. I try hard to write in a sparse style with short sentences and well-chosen words, like he did. Apparently, I'm not there yet. See what you think.

4 comments:

  1. I've heard of that site. Other writers have submitted paragraphs and shared on their blogs what their writing was like. Sounds like you had lots of fun with it.
    : )

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  2. Played with this a bit and came up with a different author for each of seven works. Isn't wasting time fun.

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  3. What fun. To be told you write like some great authors is quite a compliment. Yay you.

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  4. It's fun to think about, anyway. But just like there are no new ideas, there are no new words. It's all in how we string them together that counts.

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