William Gibson book signing at Forbidden Planet, London, UK.
According to this very cool website, which analyzes a writing sample and then tells you who your style resembles, I write exactly like William Gibson, a contemporary author of the cyberpunk genre.
2 factoids:
1. William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace.”
2. I never read anything by William Gibson. I guess now I should.
ETA: I took the test again, using a longer writing sample (both samples were from this blog)–and got science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, whose books I love.
…and even later:
I tried this with 3 more writing samples, and got David Foster Wallace all three times! So I guess that’s who I really write the most like. I haven’t read his books either. Now I will.
David Foster Wallace. Should this man be my muse?
I write like
Cory Doctorow
Going to google to find who Cory is.
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Cory Doctorow is an activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
That?
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Boing Boing? or is it Bong Bong?
J/k! I’ll have to look him up.
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BONG!
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David Foster Wallace is Hot!!
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Uh…I thought the same thing. *insert drooling smilie* He committed suicide. Such a shame. (Not because he’s hot which he is but because he was so young and left a wife behind).
That’s obviously an old picture though. He was born in Feb. 1962 so he’d be 53 if he was still alive. I wonder why so many writers suffer from depression or kill themselves.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
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Cool!
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Hey! I write like Cory Doctorow, Stephen King and David Foster Wallace! I did three tries! 🙂
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I did it again and got David Foster Wallace twice! I think his style is really the closest to my own anyway. I looked him up.
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Ohh thats nice!
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I took the sample test. It said I write like Oscar Wilde. I think that is a compliment. I never read anything written by him. Now I’m curious. I’d like to read one of his books.
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Heh. I replied to this comment, was sure I hit send, and it’s not here. Anyway, what I was going to say is that is a compliment! Oscar Wilde is thought of as one of the greatest writers of all time.
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Hmmm?? I was going to buy a book on eBay cause I’m curious about his writing style.
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You should!
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Hey I just read one of Oscar Wilds poems. My song lyrics and poetry look the same.
Maybe early on,…a teacher read him a lot in school..or something. I must have learned that in my childhood.
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I got Cory Doctorow too, whom I have some ambivalency about, and on two other posts I got Chuck Palahnuik and Vladimir Nabokov (but if I was writing stories about pedos I’d do more brutal things to them, I think.)
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I decided to stick in another writing sample, and got David Foster Wallace AGAIN! That’s the third time, so I guess I must really write like him. I need to read his books, then.
sqin!G <——– what the hell is THAT? That's such a goofy typo I'm going to leave it there.
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I write like….. Chuck Palahniuk!
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I just found a list of essays by DF Wallace and I really DO write just like him! LOL!
Here’s a quote from the book Why Writers Write:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/06/the-nature-of-fun-david-foster-wallace/
This excerpt is interesting too, because it seems to be about the narcissism of writing for others and how writing ceases to be fun when it reaches that point.
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That site is too much fun. I did it four times!
I got Gertrude Stein, Douglas Adams, William Gibson and David Foster Wallace.
The last two I plugged in two different poems. Kind of an eclectic crew there. Thanks for posting about the site. It’s quite the ego lift. LOL.
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It is isn’t it? 🙂
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Woops…I stand corrected. I actually did it 5 times. The 5th one was Vladimir Nabokov.
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Wow!
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Lol…I told you I liked it.
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It sure is addictive! I almost want to put every post in the generator. I only did the longer ones.
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I got D. F. Wallace AGAIN. Testing the automatically generated badge.
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!
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