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posted July 22, 2010 08:29 PM         

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I found this on another site: http://iwl.me/

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Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.

Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).

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Five of my samples came back as:

H. G. Wells
Margaret Atwood
H. P. Lovecraft
Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain

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posted July 22, 2010 09:26 PM         

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I'm Margaret Atwood , and David someone or other.

That was fun! I'm gonig to try again later.

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posted July 22, 2010 09:48 PM         

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Going to submit more but so far......

3 samples from one manuscript came back as
I Write Like H. P. Lovecraft

3 samples from one manuscript came back as
I Write Like Anne Rice

2 samples from one manuscript came back as
I Write Like Edgar Allan Poe

2 samples from one manuscript cam back as
I Write Like William Shakespeare

2 samples from one manuscript came back as
I Write Like Dan Brown

2 samples from one manuscript came back as
I write like Douglas Adams

3 samples from one manuscript came back as
I write like Stephen King

1 sample from one manuscript came back as
I Write Like James Joyce

1 sample from one manuscript came back as
I write like Gertrude Stein

3 samples from one manuscript came back as
I write like Cory Doctorow

1 sample from one manuscript came back as
I write like Margaret Atwood

Not surprised at the variety as most of "my"
writing is done whilst in deep trance state; automatic writing.
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posted July 22, 2010 09:52 PM         

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My Lewis Carroll result came from my writing about frogs and fireflies.

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posted July 22, 2010 09:58 PM         

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I love frogs and fireflies!

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Everyone is a student...
Learning is eternal.
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posted July 22, 2010 10:35 PM         

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-My first one (an unfinished fic chapter) came back as Cory Doctorow---->>I looked him up and apparently he has the same birthday as me

-My second one is a finished fiction piece that came back as James Joyce.

-My 3rd one is an unfinished short story that came back as L. Frank Baum: the guy who wrote the Wizard of Oz.

Im curious as to how they analyze this...I probably missed it somewhere.

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posted July 23, 2010 12:13 AM         

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I only tried one sample so far and it came back as James Joyce. Interesting to me the coincidence of our name.

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posted July 23, 2010 12:19 AM         

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From my sample:

I write like Raymond Chandler.

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posted July 23, 2010 02:11 AM         

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I just typed up a few quick paragraphs describing my experiences of today, and I got Margaret Atwood.

Gonna try more later... Thanks Teasel, that was fun !

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posted July 23, 2010 07:06 AM         

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My second sample: Dan Brown
My third sample: H.P. Lovecraft

This was fun Teasel! Thanks for the link!

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