I Write Like a Guy (mostly)

[tartysuz]

Blame librarygorilla for this fascinating time-waster!



First, I tested my LJ entry about vuvuzelas. Maybe it picked up the working class Englishness of football:

I write like
Ian Fleming

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Then, I tested my Iron Man 2 article and got an appropriate answer:

I write like
Kurt Vonnegut

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Surprisingly, my Supernatural piece in Transformative Works and Cultures yielded this result:

I write like
Isaac Asimov

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

A short story published in the anthology The Waters of Life started out with promise:

I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

...but ended on a sour note!

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Comments

[baker-kitty.livejournal.com]

One friend who did this suggested that it might just be a very small sample of women writers in their database. Is there any way of checking the list they compare to?

[tartysuz.livejournal.com]

I tried a few other times and didn't get different writers. Atwood could be the only female writer!

[baker-kitty.livejournal.com]

I can't quote the source, but one commenter saw the meme author's response on why it was all white males (with a couple of white females thrown in for spice):

"It's just COINCIDENCE that all the people he picked were white and most of them male; he doesn't CONSIDER race and gender at all in making his choices, and REFUSES to add anyone else simply because they're non-white and/or female, and the REAL racists are the people who NOTICED what he did, because if you were REALLY color-blind you wouldn't notice it AT ALL. Ptui. "
(comment 110 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012497.html#445705 )

[rpm45.livejournal.com]

Johnny Danger Returns from the Dead got me "Harry Harrison". Only heard of him in passing, but now I think I have to read his stuff. ;) (And considering he has a series called "Bill the Galactic Hero" I can see where the connection comes from.)

Johnny Danger Meets a Mouse got me "Dan Brown". I actually thought that story wasn't bad. Now I'm depressed.

On the other hand, Johnny Danger Foils the Cult of the Cube was compared to "Douglas Adams", which makes me happy. All in all I'm calling it a net win. :)

[tartysuz.livejournal.com]

I wonder what's tripping the Dan Brown evaluations. I need to avoid those words/sentence constructions!