15 Jul
I write like ….
Thanks to the ever fascinating ephemera on the J-Walk Blog posted by John Walkenbach, I tried this site.
I pasted five posts going back to 2004 and I have been informed that I write like these five noted authors.
Charles Dickens – social commentary
James Joyce – convoluted streams of consciousness
Kurt Vonnegut – sardonic humanist
Stephen King – horror stories
David Foster Wallace – who?
David Foster Wallace used his prodigious gifts as a writer – his manic, exuberant prose, his ferocious powers of observation, his ability to fuse avant-garde techniques with old-fashioned moral seriousness – to create a series of strobe-lit portraits of a millennial America overdosing on the drugs of entertainment and self-gratification, and to capture, in the words of the musician Robert Plant, the myriad “deep and meaningless” facets of contemporary life.
Substitute 'Indonesia' for 'America' and I'm flattered. However, although he was a fellow Aquarian, David F. Wallace hung himself on Sept. 12, 2008.
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This post is apparently in the style of Kurt Vonnegut.
And so it goes.
Hey J…
I posted a couple of my blog entries into the 'analyzer' program and came up with:
1. H. P. Lovecraft
2. Dan Brown
So, I guess it is time to go back and try a few other posts to see who else I can be like
It has been fun. Thanks for the link.
Having submitted my famous short story "Bird Watching" I write like (apparently): Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Dan Brown, Stephanie Mayer (haven't a clue) and James Fenimoore Cooper (ha!). I don't think I write like any of these people.
I am not sure I believe in the protocol used in the analysis. In fact nothing is stated about how it is done. So, I conducted an experiment. I submitted random typing from the keyboard, as if say my cat was walking across it. Yep, David Foster Wallace was the answer… and that's just not possible because I know for a fact that my cat writes like Haruki Murakami.
Isn't David Foster a musician?
Still, there is some consistency in your writing, UT, as your comment is in the style of Kurt Vonnegut. Probably the mention of the cat.