Writing style meme

[makeste]

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[makeste]

THIS MEME IS TRULY AMAZING.

[makeste]

Apparently there are over 40 authors in the database, so there are potentially lots of interesting results.

[rikasaurus]

I copied some random text from one of my entries and got Stephen King XD

[makeste]

Judging by my flist, approximately 90% of fandom scored King as well. Which begs the question... does Stephen King write like everybody, or does everybody write like Stephen King??

[aroundight]

I put one of my stories in and got Dan Brown.

I wanted to cry. D:

(After that I got Tolstoy which makes me much, much happier. Dan Brown, wtffff)

[makeste]

I think they just threw Dan Brown in there to fuck with people. XD

Tolstoy is a much happier result, though. The guy who made the app says he might do a version 2.0 that gives more info in the results, so that's cool. It would be nice to know why the test scores the way it does.

[dame_batsie]

I tried this with a bunch of different fics. And the breakdown was interesting:

Chuck Palahniuk - 7
Dan Brown - 4
James Joyce/Isaac Asimov/Margaret Atwood - 2
Raymond Chandler/Stephen King/H.P. Lovecraft/Rudyard Kipling - 1

Haven't read Palahniuk's or Brown's stuff but I feel like I should just to see...

[makeste]

Haha, your results are as varied as mine.

Palahniuk and Brown are the minds behind Fight Club and The DaVinci Code, respectively. I've read the latter and a couple of Brown's other books; he gets a lot of hate, but he's not too bad, really; his main problem is that he keeps writing the same basic plot over and over again. XD Palahniuk's pretty awesome, though. Of course, I say this having only seen the film version of FC (I've skimmed the book, but never actually picked it up).

[kat8cha]

Did you say the word 'MAGIC'?

[makeste]

LOL.

I really don't know what it was. My sneaking suspicion is that I use too many adverbs.