I Write Like... almost everybody, it seems.
So I may or may not have just wasted an evening playing with the "I write like..." meme (I'm too tired to do much else, long week at work). And even though I have serious doubts about it's value, honestly - it was interesting.
I started off with one of the two original stories I'm working on and decided to do a scene at a time, which was, mostly, confusing. I ended up with:- Charles Dickens, Dan Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, Chuck Palahniuk, Ray Bradbury, Mario Puzo, Vladimir Nabokov and lots of Agatha Christie.
I'm not even really sure what to make of all that, it's a bit eclectic and I have a sneaking suspicion that coherency of style might be something that people look for in a book. Ah well, that's what editing is for.
The other original story I'm working on, the one set in space, came out overall as Robert Louis Stevenson. I have decided that that is kind of cool. :D
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After that , I decided to go through my fanfic, so vaguely chronologically:
The Car Problem - Raymond Chandler
Medical Research - Chuck Palahniuk
Merlin 2010: A Fresh Start - J.K.Rowling
A Very 'Nightmare' Christmas - Chuck Palahniuk
Between Two Beats - Dan Brown
Cold - Chuck Palahniuk
The Once and Future Captain - Valdomir Nabokov
The Tempest - Chuck Palahniuk
Old Horizons, New Skies - Chuck Palahniuk
Drinking Games - Dan Brown
Under the Burnt Orange Sky - Kurt Vonnegut
Tripping the Light Fantastic (How Micky Smith Got His Groove Back) - Dan Brown
A Series of Conversations on an Awkward Subject - Dan Brown
A Terrible Cost - Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Gifts - Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - P.G. Wodehouse
Job Requirements - Chuck Palahniuk
Had I The Heavens - Chuck Palahniuk
Seven Things - James Joyce
Fractured - Dan Brown
So, I guess in terms of general patterns - I write like Chuck Palahniuk a lot and Dan Brown more often than maybe I'd like (though it was his plot primarily I disliked and given that A Series of Conversations is one of the stories I'm still proudest of, I'm not going to be too upset about that). Am ridiculously amused that The Once and Future Captain came out as Vladomir Nabokov in a lol whut way. Wondering if there's any connection between Merlin 2010 being by far my most popular story and apparently it being like J.K.Rowling, that sort of makes sense to me. And I think it's kind of cool that there is some variety in styles.
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I also put through the two fanfics I'm working on at the moment (yep, even though I'm not posting I am still writing - although I'm gutted I completely flaked on my lgbtfest story. Alas.) And got:
Hair story - H.P.Lovecraft
Merlin story - Douglas Adams (yay!)
So, there you go - utter waste of an evening, but sometimes that's what life is about.
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I started off with one of the two original stories I'm working on and decided to do a scene at a time, which was, mostly, confusing. I ended up with:- Charles Dickens, Dan Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, Chuck Palahniuk, Ray Bradbury, Mario Puzo, Vladimir Nabokov and lots of Agatha Christie.
I'm not even really sure what to make of all that, it's a bit eclectic and I have a sneaking suspicion that coherency of style might be something that people look for in a book. Ah well, that's what editing is for.
The other original story I'm working on, the one set in space, came out overall as Robert Louis Stevenson. I have decided that that is kind of cool. :D
*****
After that , I decided to go through my fanfic, so vaguely chronologically:
The Car Problem - Raymond Chandler
Medical Research - Chuck Palahniuk
Merlin 2010: A Fresh Start - J.K.Rowling
A Very 'Nightmare' Christmas - Chuck Palahniuk
Between Two Beats - Dan Brown
Cold - Chuck Palahniuk
The Once and Future Captain - Valdomir Nabokov
The Tempest - Chuck Palahniuk
Old Horizons, New Skies - Chuck Palahniuk
Drinking Games - Dan Brown
Under the Burnt Orange Sky - Kurt Vonnegut
Tripping the Light Fantastic (How Micky Smith Got His Groove Back) - Dan Brown
A Series of Conversations on an Awkward Subject - Dan Brown
A Terrible Cost - Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Gifts - Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - P.G. Wodehouse
Job Requirements - Chuck Palahniuk
Had I The Heavens - Chuck Palahniuk
Seven Things - James Joyce
Fractured - Dan Brown
So, I guess in terms of general patterns - I write like Chuck Palahniuk a lot and Dan Brown more often than maybe I'd like (though it was his plot primarily I disliked and given that A Series of Conversations is one of the stories I'm still proudest of, I'm not going to be too upset about that). Am ridiculously amused that The Once and Future Captain came out as Vladomir Nabokov in a lol whut way. Wondering if there's any connection between Merlin 2010 being by far my most popular story and apparently it being like J.K.Rowling, that sort of makes sense to me. And I think it's kind of cool that there is some variety in styles.
*****
I also put through the two fanfics I'm working on at the moment (yep, even though I'm not posting I am still writing - although I'm gutted I completely flaked on my lgbtfest story. Alas.) And got:
Hair story - H.P.Lovecraft
Merlin story - Douglas Adams (yay!)
So, there you go - utter waste of an evening, but sometimes that's what life is about.
This entry was originally posted at http://lorannah.dreamwidth.org/4179.html. Please comment there using OpenID.