Sunday, July 15, 2012

I Write Like

Found this little diversion through StumbleUpon the other day:

I Write Like

If you paste text in there, it tells you which famous author you write like.  I tend to think it's BS; I pasted the first part of my novel in there and it said "William Shakespeare."  I pasted a blog entry and it said "H.P. Lovecraft."  I pasted some of my PhD dissertation and it said "Margaret Atwood."  And I pasted the text of an education speech by Mitt Romney and it said "Cory Doctorow."

I guess what that proves is that there are multiple authors whose works are searched as part of the algorithm.  But my novel is pretty far from William Shakespeare-style.  Post in the comments if you try it out and get something interesting.

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