I Write Like
Caught wind of the I Write Like writing style analyzer from the Bookninja blog and have to admit I got a great kick out of giving it a try. Simply cut and paste a piece of your writing into the analyzer, then supposedly using some manner of statistical methodology based on word choice and writing style it spits out a reknown author your style is most aligned with.
Using a bit of my own prose as test bait, it turns out that I write like David Foster Wallace. Funny enough, put in a paragraph or two from Infinite Jest and the analyzer indicates that David Foster Wallace writes like………well………um……… David Foster Wallace! Was kinda hoping it would spit out my name, but I guess my work hasn’t exactly taken me into the realm of author extraordinaire 
If you decide to give the analyzer a whirl, please post a comment and let us know who you write like.
Here’s a scary thought. Plugged in part of a children’s book I’m working on and it says I write like Stephen King !!!! Yikes!
The preface I’m writing to a Family History came up H.P.Lovecraft! Hmmm. Several samples of my writing brought up results ranging from William Shakespeare right down to Dan Brown for some fiction experiments. A poem I wrote a long time ago came up James Joyce. Perhaps prose “analyzer” should read “randomizer”!
I plugged in a few paragraphs from my last university class essay. It says that I write like Charles Dickens. I wonder if I can leverage that into some extra marks?
Everyone I tried writes like David Foster Wallace, whoever that is.
Who is David Foster Wallace?