I write like
David Foster WallaceI Write Like by Mémoires,
journal software.
Analyze your writing! In the interest of being all scientifical, I entered in a few different samples to the "I write like" website. For my current WIP piece of fluffy fanfiction, I got J.K.Rowling. Well enough, I thought, I am trying to emulate her style, there.
For my novel and three other original short stories, I got David F. Wallace. *points up* I have to admit, I googled him. If the website is going to say I write like the dude, I want to know who he is. His best known novel is a mix of hysterical realism, satire and comedy, so I think that pretty much hits it on the nose for me, generally speaking.
HOWEVER, when I put in the last thing I wrote for church - a piece on the Song of Solomon, Mr. Website spat out Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk, author of 'Fight Club.'
Song of Solomon, Fight Club. Song of Solomon, Fight Club. I thought about it for a looooong time (almost 45 seconds!) and I don't see it. Sorry.
And crap, I talked about Fight Club, so.... *looks around for Brad Pitt*
(That'd be cool, wouldn't it? If you broke rules one and two and he showed up? Like some sort of bruised and battered fairy fightmother.)
And then, for a play I co-wrote a few years ago, about superheroes in mediation and counseling, I got Agatha Christie.
Um.
So, in short, I don't support this site 100%. I'd say I support it 37%.
But it was kinda fun to analyze it all, nonetheless.