If only it were so...

[fajrdrako]

In a rash moment, I succumbed to the temptation to see who I write like. I used some paragraphs of my story John Ellis and got this result:

I write like
James Joyce

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

Oh, really? There must be some kind of mistake. Look at Ulysses:

Braintipped, cheek touched with flame, they listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine. Bloom signed to Pat, bald Pat is a waiter hard of hearing, to set ajar the door of the bar. The door of the bar. So. That will do. Pat, waiter, waited, waiting to hear, for he was hard of hear by the door.

-- Sorrow from me seemed to depart.

Maybe it means my prose is lyrical and rhythmic. That would be nice.

Let's try again. With passages from Future Shock and No Trespassing, I got the result that I write like Cory Doctorow. I've never read Cory Doctorow.

Then, with the beginning of Forgotten, I hit pay dirt:

I write like
Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The best of the best. Now I can go to bed with a proud smile on my lips. Ursula K. LeGuin! Magnificent.


Note to self: read Ulysses

Comments

[sraun]

Have you heard that this is a shill for a vanity publisher?

[fajrdrako]

Yup. Can't see that it matters. Most websites have targeted advertising - I don't care, because I ignore the ads anyway. It isn't something to be taken seriously!

[cleverthylacine]

The reason it matters is that it is bullshit and you don't really write like James Joyce, unless you also think that I do, except for the scene in World Well Lost where we first see Dracaena do her full trans toilette, which for some reason elicited that I wrote like JK Rowling.

[fajrdrako]

Seems to me it's more innocuous than many of the odd quizzes online. Surely no one takes this kind of thing seriously?

[cleverthylacine]

idk, hon, if you're actually considering that it says something about your writing you're taking it seriously to some degree!

In general I don't take internet quizzes seriously. but I think some people were.

[fajrdrako]

I see it as an amusing game - amusing on several levels. As such I got my money's worth - so to speak.