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I Write Like

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I came across this topic on the Serebii Fan Fiction forums, and though you might want to check it out, all you Bulbagardeners who don't also have accounts on Serebii.

It's about this website, called I Write Like, that uses some sort of statistical analysis to try and figure out what famous author you write like.

I decided to submit my own story in there for analysis. Here's the analysis for the first chapter of Generation 2021:

Prologue: James Joyce
Chapter 1, scene 1: Cory Doctorow
Chapter 1, scene 2: Kurt Vonnegut
Chapter 1, scene 3: Cory Doctorow
Chapter 1, scene 4: Dan Brown
Chapter 1, scene 5: Stephen King
Chapter 1, scene 6: Stephen King
Chapter 1, scene 7: Stephen King
Chapter 1, scene 8: Stephen King
Chapter 1, scene 9: Stephen King (five in a row, I thought my browser's cookie was broken o_O)
Chapter 1, outtro: David Foster Wallace
Chapter 1, overall: Cory Doctorow

Wow. I didn't even know who David Foster Wallace was until I looked him up.
 
Tarnished Gold: Chapter I: Parts I-II was written like some guy called Chuck Palahniuk.

EDIT: He wrote the book that would become the movie "Fight Club"

EDIT: Chapter I: Part III (in its entirety) was written in the style of Edgar Allen Poe! Amazing! Also, this.
 
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Gah, I hate comparing myself to people who are better than me. If anyone, I write like David Eddings, sometimes like Kurt Vonnegut. Maybe a bit of Tolkien, and sort of like J. K. Rowling. I'm like R. A. Salvatore sometimes, though.

Does that make any sense?
Those are just my thoughts. I'm going to try out that site now, then I'll get back.

All but two chapters of Field Research were Robert Louis Stevenson. That was unexpected. I guess I'll be reading Treasure Island again.
I wonder what it'll say if I put in all of the chapters?
Guess what? Robert Louis Stevenson.
 
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What a cool tool!

By category (most of the things I ran through came from my blog):
Music reviews: Cory Doctorow (whoever the hell that is) for large music compilations, James Joyce for single album reviews.

Original Pokemon articles on my blog: Cory Doctorow (seriously, who the hell is he). I got Vladimir Nabokov for an RMT of mine.

Edited versions of same articles for possible columns on Bulbanews: Edgar Allan Poe

Posts about life: David Foster Wallace if negative, or Ian Fleming if positive. I got a couple of Stephen Kings, all for positive posts, wtf.


I...really don't know how it came to some of these conclusions. None of these were stories, just me writing out my thoughts. I do see patterns though: for example, single album reviews tend to be less messy and bullshat than longer ones therefore I get an author of substance, and edited things tend to be cleaner and more former hence I get Poe. It probably doesn't mean anything significant, though, but it's fun to mess around with.
 
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I got Ian Fleming. Of course, I didn't post much.
 
I got David Foster Wallace for an essay, James Joyce for a short story and JK Rowling for a screenplay.

This is a good confidence booster xD
 
I got Stephenie Meyer for chapter one.
and I got Charles Dickens for for my latest chapter (ten).
But I try to find my own style... Hopefully there will be Thabet's style one day.
 
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loooooolz my friend took this quiz one time and got Stephanie Meyer hahaahdghdgagagajfhf. Poor thing.

I took it a long time ago. It said I wrote like some dead Russian guy. I'll retake it when I'm not lazy.
 
I submitted the latest chapter of my fan fic and got Mark Twain lol

EDIT: @lmao if you got Tolstoy you should be very, very proud of yourself.
 
I got Mario Puzo once. I was so happy. For those of you who don't know Mario Puzo, he wrote the book that would become the Oscar Award Winning motion picture "The Godfather"
 
Lol, all these people getting authors they love. I don't even care for Mark Twain that much, living in the South, his books lose a lot of the charm that people who live in other places see in them. Why couldnt I get Vonnegut!?!? Oh, probably because I dont write like him....
 
Hmm... interesting.

I write like David Foster Wallace.

Wait... who?

This was for my last chapter of Son of Earth.
 
I submitted my first chapter and got David Foster Wallace as well. Pretty cool find!
 
Roulette Dares said:
I submitted the latest chapter of my fan fic and got Mark Twain lol

EDIT: @lmao if you got Tolstoy you should be very, very proud of yourself.
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Yes, now I feel bad for calling him "a dead Russian guy"! D:

& I have toooons of Mark Twain's stuff, bahaha. I should read your fan fic. :p
 
Lol, I don't see any traces of his work in mine, it's probably because I use a lot of dialogue, as does Twain.

I got Twain on all of my chapters except my most recent one that I just finished today. It had a lot more action in it compared to my previous chapters, and I got Isaac Asimov. For those of you who don't know, he's one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time.
 
Legacy said:
I submitted my first chapter and got David Foster Wallace as well. Pretty cool find!
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So my last chapter is the equivalent of your first? Man, I have some catching up to do.

EDIT: Or not. My first chapter was in the style of Ernest Hemingway.
 
Alright, for Chapter 2!

Chapter 2, scene 1: Stephen King (considering that the scenes are similar, I don't mind.)
Chapter 2, scene 2: Stephen King
Chapter 2, scene 3: (didn't check, too short)
Chapter 2, scene 4 (minus the song): Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter 2, overall: Robert Louis Stevenson

Considering that scene 4 is more than half the chapter...yeeeeah. Let me try breaking scene 4 up a bit:

scene 4, part 1: Stephen King
scene 4, part 2: Stephen King
scene 4, part 3: Stephen King
scene 4, overall: Robert Louis Stevenson (WTF?)

And here I thought Stephen King was a 19th-century author.

Ah well, perhaps it's the cracky nature of my works that compare it to Stephen King so.
 
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