I write like.......

[dANdeLION]

I don't write, but I found a short store here on the Watch that intrigued me, so I figured I'd put it in 'I Write Like' and see which author it matched.

Kept in the cellar by his evil aunt Gertrude for hours longer than was usual, little null had an epiphany. He could hide here any time he wanted, and nocody would look for him. So the cellar became a place of solitude, rather than the place of fear it had been all his short life. It was still dark, still damp; but now he found it comforting. Null explored every corner of his new domicile. He found several old tools, an abandoned tricycle, a pair of binoculars, an old lawnmower engine, several feet of rope, and an old vice. He also found a mouse, whom he called Mallory. Null loved Mallory; he brought the diminutive rodent cheese, bread, or cookies whenever he could. Null told his deepest, darkest secrets to mallory, too. One day, at school, one of the usual bullies chided null, saying he was an epic overposter. Null was crushed. No one was supposed to know null's aunt had forced him to go to several Overposter's Anonymous meetings, as null had never mentioned it to a living soul. Well, except for Mallory. Furious, null ran home. Quietly creeping past his aunt's room, null entered the cellar, with revenge on his juvenile brain. Null grabbed the rusty hammer in his sweaty hand, and held out a slice of cheese in his other hand, sweetly calling for Mallory.

But Mallory didn't come.

Looking around, null realized that the trike, engine, and rope had also disappeared. Also, null now noticed, the cellar window was unlocked; ajar.

Absentmindedly grabbing the binoculars, null quickly left the cellar. Null went out back, where he found the tricycle tracks and an empty gas can. Looking out in the direction the tracks went, null saw a startling site. Using the binoculars, null witnessed what appeared to be a castle, ascending above a plume of billowing smoke, hurtling towards the stars. Atop the castle was a man, dressed like a king, or perhaps a sorcerer, laughing like a drunken clown. And on his shoulder perched Mallory, who was looking straight at null, and flipping him a bird.

I Write Like's response? Margaret Mitchell.

[CovenantJr]

I tried three extracts from different short stories, and got three different answers: Dan Brown, James Joyce and Arthur Conan Doyle. Meh.

[wayfriend]

Based on Nom's Garden, I write like Ursula K. Le Guin!!!!

Based on The Tiz Bottle, I write like Kurt Vonnegut!

Not bad. But, o to be a Stephen R Donaldson or a Samuel R Delany.

[I'm Murrin]

You'd have to include a lot more references to male genitalia to score Delany.


(Kidding, of course.)

[hue of fuzzpaws]

I write like
James Fenimore Cooper

[Krazy Kat]

I put in the first chapter from Against All Things Ending, and got
James Fenimore Cooper

Hey, hue of bone, your post just beat me to it.
So in a round-about way you write like Stephen Donaldson!

[wayfriend]

You'd have to include a lot more references to male genitalia to score Delany.

(Kidding, of course.)

(Not really.) Or at least of men who bite their nails.

Sounds like Nom's Garden Part II has practically written itself ...

I put in the first chapter from Against All Things Ending, and got
James Fenimore Cooper

Hey, hue of bone, your post just beat me to it.
So in a round-about way you write like Stephen Donaldson!

So the answer I was looking for was James Fenemore Cooper. Damn.

Congrats, Hue.

[dANdeLION]

Tom put in the Flower of Doom chapters he says I wrote (but I didn't), and they got:

Issac Asimov
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rudyard Kipling
Jack London
Douglas Adams
Dan Brown
Arthur Conan Doyle

I entered The Story, and got:

Mark Twain.

I kind of wonder if it just randomly spits out names..........

[aTOMiC]

Well ____ I posted an excerpt from 2 different short stories "Folly's Challenge" and the first chapter from Flower of Doom and they both got Ursula K. Le Guin. Hmmm...

[dANdeLION]

I took a random list of usernames from another site and submitted it: James Joyce

Then I submitted: fvsrdgirgjoeWQPE[FOFEWPFGVOREOBVJV VJFGVGVIFPF[ DWOPXC-=]CFV UIF=-ObF FNF= -FIJ

Raymond Chandler should be offended!

[thewormoftheworld'send]

I took a random list of usernames from another site and submitted it: James Joyce

Some of Joyce does read like a list of random words.

Then I submitted: fvsrdgirgjoeWQPE[FOFEWPFGVOREOBVJV VJFGVGVIFPF[ DWOPXC-=]CFV UIF=-ObF FNF= -FIJ

Raymond Chandler should be offended!

I pasted in about a hundred number ones and came up with Cory Doctorow.

[aliantha]

I tried it again just now. I used my post from the "How do you feel today?" thread about the wet carpet in the kitchen at work, and it said I write like Dan Brown. I couldn't decide whether to be insulted or demand a bigger advance on my next book. So I thought I would try again.

I dumped in a chunk of dialogue from last year's NaNoWriMo novel, and it said I write like Chuck Palahniuk. Okay, that's better, but still not quite the sort of endorsement I was after.

So then I dumped in the scene from "The Maidens' War" that I put up at NaNoWriMo in '08 -- Czech diacriticals and all -- and it said I write like Bram Stoker. Now *that's* what I'm talkin' about!

[Vraith]

heh...I still want this site to have a database of...oh, I don't know...5000 authors? And take into account more facets...but everyone is having so much fun, had to do a couple more...this time I used more 'technical' writing I do/have done. I'm posting details because I think at least Lucimay, if following this thread, might find some humor/oddness in the last 2.

A paper [standard kind, just like high-school basically, no high-falutin theory] I did on Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead": Ursula K. Le Guin. Coolness, always liked.

An early theory/crit paper I did on Monica Wittig, and my final paper for my Master's, in which the first half of the paper explained a critical approach that I invented, the second part used it to analyze Rushdie: submitted separately, both results: H.P. Lovecraft.
I swear, I did not describe anywhere, in either, spaces that the human mind cannot really percieve, evil tentacled overlords [or their odd, nasty followers, human or not] or grizzly, unexplained events [not even events that were singularly either grizzly, or unexplained]
Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that writing stuff is fine. Analyzing stuff that is written means the world ends in darkly incomprehensible multi-dimensional slimy-ness.
BEWARE!

[aliantha]

Thanks for the warning, Vraith! You'll get no lit crit from me!

[Savor Dam]

Submitted a three page story I have been working on for a couple days...and was told I write like J.K. Rowling.

Shame my stuff does not sell like hers...

[Harbinger]

I got Salinger on one and Hemingway on one.