I write like...

[elfs]

There's a meme going around to analyze your writing in the belief that somehow you write "like" someone else. I'm suspecting some trivial keyword magic: the word "robot" automagically gets you Asimov, for example.

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[dougs]

steer offers this as an alternative.

[en_ki]

Bayesian whoosiwhatsit is easy to write or borrow these days and, given anything but the hugest training set, will probably converge to a simplistic keyword filter.

[jenbooks]

It told me my English paper on Bartleby was like Lovecraft, my book review of Dear Friend was like Dickens, and two blog posts were Douglas Adams and Stephen King.

Then I put in a Lovecraft excerpt and got Douglas Adams while a Douglas Adams excerpt got Leo Tolstoy.

Although a Stephen King excerpt got Stephen King!

That was fun. :D

[nbarnes]

I got Dan Brown a lot, too. I choose to ignore this.

I didn't run any of my smut writing through it, though.

[lemur123]

IMHO, you're more like the offspring of Tanya Huff, Neil Asher, Charles Stross, and John Scalzi.