It's interesting how different styles get picked up, isn't it? Although I really wonder how the likenesses are estimated. I did this for my Eagle sequel story The White Hare, and it came out as William Shakespeare. Which...just... No. :-D
Then I tried the story I'm working on at the moment, which has what I intended as a Kiplingesque intro, and then a more modern colloquial style. The intro came out as Oscar Wilde, and the rest was Douglas Adams. I suppose at least it did spot the change!
Shakespeare is odd, isn't it? They're obviously not looking for blank verse! Douglas Adams is odd, too, having read some of your stories, because his writing is so mannered
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Wow, I shall be watching out for those words when writing now!
Do you think that your Anne Rice id may be related? (I actually quite like Anne Rice's writing style, although I'm not wild about her characterisation or plotting. But I'm guessing that the app can't detect those things. :-D )
One construction they said was a masculine signifier is 'x of y', eg 'garden of roses' (part of the informational business), and I noticed, when I was quoting Oscar Wilde in my talk, that he uses it a lot. (Though I think that, for him, it's part of a highly enamelled descriptive technique).
Do you mean did I score as Anne Rice because we're both female? I would think that's part of it. I imagine that, for each author, they just counted the number of different words they used and how often, and the number of different constructions they used and how often, did some statistical magic[TM], and generated a style fingerprint they could compare our samples to.
I liked The Vampire Lestat, but I gave up half way through Memnoch The Devil. I think the McGuffin had become real to her. (Also, she's very hostile towards fanfic writers).
Hmm... I have to admit to never reading anything by Ann Rice so I don't know if it is a good thing to be considered like her or not.
Thinking about your comments about male and female writing styles, it would be interesting to know what Algorithm this meme use, as we have both said before.
Perhaps it recognises your style as feminine? Although it would be interesting to know if the other one recognised them as female anyway.
If it has encouraged you to go back to Winter Magic it is clearly, however, a good thing!
I actually tested some of my writing with the male/female one. I chose a story in which Draco had a very strong and (I thought) masculine voice, and tested just his dialogue -- it took ages to extract it! He came out 'weak masculine, possibly European'. So I tried the same with Hermione's dialogue: 'weak feminine, possibly European'. Then I tried a sample of the story as a whole (which is close 3rd person, Hermione's POV): 'weak feminine, possibly European'.
As I said to bunn, above, I should think a 'feminine' style was part of it. I imagine they just counted the number of different words an author used and how often, and the number of different constructions they used and how often, did a statistical analysis, and generated a style fingerprint they could compare our samples to. It must have been academic research, though. They couldn't have put that much effort into an Internet meme!
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It's interesting how different styles get picked up, isn't it? Although I really wonder how the likenesses are estimated. I did this for my Eagle sequel story The White Hare, and it came out as William Shakespeare. Which...just... No. :-D
Then I tried the story I'm working on at the moment, which has what I intended as a Kiplingesque intro, and then a more modern colloquial style. The intro came out as Oscar Wilde, and the rest was Douglas Adams. I suppose at least it did spot the change!
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Do you think that your Anne Rice id may be related? (I actually quite like Anne Rice's writing style, although I'm not wild about her characterisation or plotting. But I'm guessing that the app can't detect those things. :-D )
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One construction they said was a masculine signifier is 'x of y', eg 'garden of roses' (part of the informational business), and I noticed, when I was quoting Oscar Wilde in my talk, that he uses it a lot. (Though I think that, for him, it's part of a highly enamelled descriptive technique).
Do you mean did I score as Anne Rice because we're both female? I would think that's part of it. I imagine that, for each author, they just counted the number of different words they used and how often, and the number of different constructions they used and how often, did some statistical magic[TM], and generated a style fingerprint they could compare our samples to.
I liked The Vampire Lestat, but I gave up half way through Memnoch The Devil. I think the McGuffin had become real to her. (Also, she's very hostile towards fanfic writers).
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Thinking about your comments about male and female writing styles, it would be interesting to know what Algorithm this meme use, as we have both said before.
Perhaps it recognises your style as feminine? Although it would be interesting to know if the other one recognised them as female anyway.
If it has encouraged you to go back to Winter Magic it is clearly, however, a good thing!
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I actually tested some of my writing with the male/female one. I chose a story in which Draco had a very strong and (I thought) masculine voice, and tested just his dialogue -- it took ages to extract it! He came out 'weak masculine, possibly European'. So I tried the same with Hermione's dialogue: 'weak feminine, possibly European'. Then I tried a sample of the story as a whole (which is close 3rd person, Hermione's POV): 'weak feminine, possibly European'.
As I said to bunn, above, I should think a 'feminine' style was part of it. I imagine they just counted the number of different words an author used and how often, and the number of different constructions they used and how often, did a statistical analysis, and generated a style fingerprint they could compare our samples to. It must have been academic research, though. They couldn't have put that much effort into an Internet meme!
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But not really why I popped in. What I wanted to say was,
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I met up with my brother and sister-in-law and ate a lot of food that was not on my diet ;-)
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