The "I write like" website

[SFG75]

You can evidently submit a writing sample to I write like" and they will tell you.

Though the site might seem the idle dalliance of an English professor on summer break, it was created by Dmitry Chestnykh, a 27-year-old Russian software programmer currently living in Montenegro. Though he speaks English reasonably well, it's his second language.

"I wanted it to be an educational thing and also to help people write better," he said.

Huffington Post summary of iwl

I evidently write like James Joyce.:lol::whistling:

 

[Peder]

Congratulations! I couldn't coax James Faulkner out of it, so I gave up. :banghead6mx:
(And I hope this doesn't count as a killer post. /praying/ )

 

[Peder]

Congratulations! I couldn't coax James Faulkner out of it, so I gave up. :banghead6mx:
(And I hope this doesn't count as a killer post. /praying/ )

Not William Faulkner, either /blushing/
But he always seems like a James to me.:blush:

 

[kcmay]

Beware of this site. Author James D. Macdonald wrote an article about it called "Further Thoughts on “I Write Like”" and posted it on Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden's website Making Light. I can't post the URL 'cause I'm a newbie, but if you google Nielsen Hayden, it'll come up.

 

[Peder]

That's a worthwhile link, suggesting scam, scam, scam to me.
Good catch, kcmay!

Thanks,
Peder
The new Chuck Palahniuk.
As if.
:

 

[Eva]

Scam or not, it says I write like Raymond Chandler. Woo hoo!

A sample from Huck Finn said it was like Mark Twain, but a sample from Pudd'n Head Wilson said it was like James Joyce.

 

[kcmay]

I went to the Lorem Ipsum text generator and got it to generate 5 paragraphs of dummy text. When I pasted it into the I Write Like site, it said I write like David Foster Wallace. That says something about either Wallace's writing or the I write like site.

 

[Eva]

War and Peace -- Anne Rice.

Moby Dick -- Arthur C. Clarke.

Wuthering Heights -- James Fenimore Cooper.

 

[Peder]

I went to the Lorem Ipsum text generator and got it to generate 5 paragraphs of dummy text. When I pasted it into the I Write Like site, it said I write like David Foster Wallace. That says something about either Wallace's writing or the I write like site.

Have you tried another five paragraphs of dummy text? That answer may also say something more about the site.

Like reproducible results or not.

 

[SFG75]

I wonder if you submitted Dostoyevsky, if it would say the person wrote like Stephen King........hmmmmmm.

 

[Eva]

Brothers Karamazov, chapters 48 and 23 -- Leo "Stephen King" Tolstoy.

 

[SFG75]

Brothers Karamazov, chapters 48 and 23 -- Leo "Stephen King" Tolstoy.

Looks as if it is terribly off the mark, but not too terribly off the mark. Interesting.

 

[BoyBleu]

Beware of this site. Author James D. Macdonald wrote an article about it called "Further Thoughts on “I Write Like”" and posted it on Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden's website Making Light. I can't post the URL 'cause I'm a newbie, but if you google Nielsen Hayden, it'll come up.

The articles at Making Light (nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/2010_07.html) were enlightening and I agree with Teresa that the site most likely compares vocabulary.

"I Write Like" is a laughable scam, but only a scam if we take it seriously. Even though "I Write Like" claims I write :lol: like Anne Rice, Stephen King, William Gibson, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, Cory Doctorow, Chuck Palahniuk, and Kurt Vonnegut with a major leaning toward King and Palahniuk, I don't seriously think so.

The site should be used only as a source of fun and laughs much like the The Gender Genie site (bookblog.net/gender/genie.php) which will tell you if, as a writer, you are a man or a woman. My detective Rachel Cord stories, the site says, were written by a woman ("Which is as it should be," Rachel says. "They're mine.") :innocent: