Blake Butler—
Everyone I’ve seen mention this has been told they write either like Stephen King or David Foster Wallace. Who do you write like?
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Seems like it’s random.
I’ve gotten Stephen King mostly, with a little Palahniuck and one Nabokov. These always think I’m a woman so I’m a little surprised, but apparently the only women are Jane Austen and JK Rowling.
I’ve gotten Palahniuk, Nabokov, King, Margaret Atwood, and James Fenimore Cooper.
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Kurt
i got james joyce
iwl.me gets me
Wallace from that thing at Abjective, Shakespeare from Solip.
I’m pretty sure it is. I just tested two stories I tested a few days ago. Same results for both: First time they were Palahniuk, now they are DFW.
Shee-it. Next you’re gonna tell me my magic eight ball’s been shilling me for years.
No. That shit can see into your brain.
Your future brain.
Daniel Defoe!
Raymond fucking Chandler
Signs point to yes.
Dan Brown….
I got Margaret Mitchell.
I posted a thing from James Joyce, got Stephen King.
i got HP Lovecraft, yes!
i got stephaine meyer. I win.
my first chapter: chuck palahniuk. my 2nd: stephen king. my 3rd: james joyce.
go figure.
I posted a poem and got David Foster Wallace. Cute.
George Orwell, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, and Margaret Atwood (twice).
Mine said I write like the Cleveland Cavaliers owner.
I am now less offended I got Dan Brown for one of the pieces I pasted. Also got King, Palahniuk (yech), Vonnegut and Joyce in response to other stuff.
I posted a section of my thesis on Society of the Spectacle and got Dan Brown. That seems wholly right.
Joyce.
I got Dan Brown too! Someone else I know got Dan Brown because their sample had foreign words in foreign type, like my sample. I like writing sample. It makes me feel sexual. And why yes then, exactly like Dan Brown, but a sexual Dan Brown. I also enjoy writing and saying that name: Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown…
I posted this comments section and got “Arthur C. Clarke”
No matter what I posted from my blog of from DC’s, I got King, Wallace, and two Margaret Atwoods. I didn’t know all those other authors were even a choice. I’m glad nothing got Stephanie Meyer, though.
Intriguing idea… looks like it may need a little finessing.
I sat on a carton of chocolate milk and got Stephen Elliott.
yeah, i entered in a pretty minimalist short story in 2nd person and somehow got david foster wallace…
Entered an ascii middle finger & got James Joyce
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douglas adams
Seems like it’s random.
I’ve gotten Stephen King mostly, with a little Palahniuck and one Nabokov. These always think I’m a woman so I’m a little surprised, but apparently the only women are Jane Austen and JK Rowling.
I’ve gotten Palahniuk, Nabokov, King, Margaret Atwood, and James Fenimore Cooper.
*
Kurt
i got james joyce
iwl.me gets me
Wallace from that thing at Abjective, Shakespeare from Solip.
i posted some source HTML from HTMLGiant and got Dan Brown.
I’m pretty sure it is. I just tested two stories I tested a few days ago. Same results for both: First time they were Palahniuk, now they are DFW.
Shee-it. Next you’re gonna tell me my magic eight ball’s been shilling me for years.
I entered a paragraph from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and got James Fenimore Cooper. Always suspected that Stephen Dedalus was actually a Mohican.
No. That shit can see into your brain.
Your future brain.
Daniel Defoe!
Raymond fucking Chandler
Signs point to yes.
Dan Brown….
I got Margaret Mitchell.
I posted a thing from James Joyce, got Stephen King.
i got HP Lovecraft, yes!
i got stephaine meyer. I win.
my first chapter: chuck palahniuk. my 2nd: stephen king. my 3rd: james joyce.
go figure.
I posted a poem and got David Foster Wallace. Cute.
I entered everything in this thread and got Arthur C. Clarke. Congratulations on your team effort.
i copy and pasted the comments in this thread and got Arthur C. Clarke
Damn. I’m LATE. Fuck me. And still, no delete button. Sorry Andrew. But we did match.
Hahaha! Consensus. It takes everyone on here to write like Clarke.
George Orwell, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, and Margaret Atwood (twice).
Marcel Proust writes like Nabokov. Thomas Browne writes like George Orwell. Kafka writes like James Joyce. I write like Nabokov, Foster Wallace and Dan Brown.
Mine said I write like the Cleveland Cavaliers owner.
I posted GOOD PEOPLE by David Foster Wallace and got Stephen King.
I am now less offended I got Dan Brown for one of the pieces I pasted. Also got King, Palahniuk (yech), Vonnegut and Joyce in response to other stuff.
i posted PREMIUM HARMONY by Stephen King and got Stephen King
Joyce.
I got Dan Brown too! Someone else I know got Dan Brown because their sample had foreign words in foreign type, like my sample. I like writing sample. It makes me feel sexual. And why yes then, exactly like Dan Brown, but a sexual Dan Brown. I also enjoy writing and saying that name: Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown, Dan Brown…
I posted this comments section and got “Arthur C. Clarke”
No matter what I posted from my blog of from DC’s, I got King, Wallace, and two Margaret Atwoods. I didn’t know all those other authors were even a choice. I’m glad nothing got Stephanie Meyer, though.
Intriguing idea… looks like it may need a little finessing.
D:
i put my dick in a hole and got ants in my pants
I sat on a carton of chocolate milk and got Stephen Elliott.
yeah, i entered in a pretty minimalist short story in 2nd person and somehow got david foster wallace…
I’ve gotten Kurt Vonnegut x2, Margaret Atwood x2, and David Foster Wallace x2.
Entered an ascii middle finger & got James Joyce
…………………./´¯/)
………………..,/¯../
………………./…./
…………./´¯/’…’/´¯¯`·¸
………./’/…/…./……./¨¯
……..(‘(…´…´…. ¯~/’…’)
……………………..’…../
……….”…………. _.·´
……………………..(
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stephen king x 2 isaac asimov x 1 and stephenie meyer… x 2
I only tried once, with a squib from a private notebook I keep about films I watch and got … TOLSTOY?
It’s a fraud, a flattering fraud but a fraud nonetheless.
Hey you up there! What do you mean Raymond fucking Chandler?
Haham I wonder, if the textes we are past there are just analyzed, or are uploading and going to be published in another issue of “Forgodot”…
douglas adams
i posted some source HTML from HTMLGiant and got Dan Brown.
I entered a paragraph from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and got James Fenimore Cooper. Always suspected that Stephen Dedalus was actually a Mohican.
My poem got Tolkien.
I entered everything in this thread and got Arthur C. Clarke. Congratulations on your team effort.
Damn. I’m LATE. Fuck me. And still, no delete button. Sorry Andrew. But we did match.
Hahaha! Consensus. It takes everyone on here to write like Clarke.
First I got Stephen King, then Ian Fleming, DFW, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Marcel Proust writes like Nabokov. Thomas Browne writes like George Orwell. Kafka writes like James Joyce. I write like Nabokov, Foster Wallace and Dan Brown.
I posted GOOD PEOPLE by David Foster Wallace and got Stephen King.
Two different poems got James Fenimore Cooper and Ursula K. Leguin. I think it’s bad when a poem gets Cooper. I think.
Oscar (girlsgone)Wilde.
daniel defoe. it’s been a while since i read defoe but i don’t see it.
Williams Gibson and Shakespeare. I’ll take it.
D:
i put my dick in a hole and got ants in my pants
James Joyce (x2), Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Murphy Brown
My vampire novel got Gertrude Stein.
An awful post-break up email I now regret ever writing: Mark Twain.
Donald Barthelme’s The School is Margaret Atwood.
I’ve gotten Kurt Vonnegut x2, Margaret Atwood x2, and David Foster Wallace x2.
stephen king x 2 isaac asimov x 1 and stephenie meyer… x 2
I only tried once, with a squib from a private notebook I keep about films I watch and got … TOLSTOY?
It’s a fraud, a flattering fraud but a fraud nonetheless.
Hey you up there! What do you mean Raymond fucking Chandler?
Haham I wonder, if the textes we are past there are just analyzed, or are uploading and going to be published in another issue of “Forgodot”…
I got Mark Twain.
William Gibson…yay?
I got HP Lovecraft and then DFW. I think no real programming behind that analyze button…
My poem got Tolkien.
dfw
goddammit, i still got Stephen King when I put my dick in a hole.
I posted in excerpts of four stories and got Lovecraft, King, Rowling, and DFW.
Pasting in “Kittens.” ten times gets Edgar Allan Poe.
First I got Stephen King, then Ian Fleming, DFW, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Two different poems got James Fenimore Cooper and Ursula K. Leguin. I think it’s bad when a poem gets Cooper. I think.
Gotta figure that being compared to Dan Brown is better than Palahniuk, right?
Oscar (girlsgone)Wilde.
“Pasting in “Kittens.” ten times gets Edgar Allan Poe.”
Another scientist in our midst! Sweet!
if i were to put my dick, assuming i have one, which i don’t, in a hole, who would i want to get? hmmm, let’s see, james franco, maybe. yeah, james franco.
daniel defoe. it’s been a while since i read defoe but i don’t see it.
Williams Gibson and Shakespeare. I’ll take it.
My dick has a hole in it
James Joyce (x2), Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Murphy Brown
My vampire novel got Gertrude Stein.
An awful post-break up email I now regret ever writing: Mark Twain.
Donald Barthelme’s The School is Margaret Atwood.
e.m. forster writes like douglas adams
I know my life has ceased to have meaning when I read this post and I go, “Shouldn’t it be ‘whom’?”
Also, speaking of grammatical prescriptivism, DFW. Over and over again.
I got Mark Twain.
2+2 = 5
I got Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin (in addition to DFW).
William Gibson…yay?
I got HP Lovecraft and then DFW. I think no real programming behind that analyze button…
dfw
goddammit, i still got Stephen King when I put my dick in a hole.
I posted in excerpts of four stories and got Lovecraft, King, Rowling, and DFW.
Pasting in “Kittens.” ten times gets Edgar Allan Poe.
H.P. Lovecraft. uuuuuu
Vladimir Nabokov! What a delightful compliment to receive from a computer.
To the cleaning and preening
Of the cats, cats, cats –
Of the cats, cats, cats, cats,
Cats, cats, cats –
To the purring and demurring of the cats!
2+2 = (e^iπ) + (6103515625^(1/14))
wooooooooooooooord
Sorry to be a killjoy, but I got Nabokov, too, so you probably shouldn’t be tooooo flattered.
(On the third try. First try I got Dan Brown. Felt like I was on Internet Candid Camera or something, embarrassed all by myself in a darkened room. Second try I got Raymond Chandler. Go figure.)
fiction: stephen king
nonfiction: david foster wallace
Gotta figure that being compared to Dan Brown is better than Palahniuk, right?
“Pasting in “Kittens.” ten times gets Edgar Allan Poe.”
Another scientist in our midst! Sweet!
if i were to put my dick, assuming i have one, which i don’t, in a hole, who would i want to get? hmmm, let’s see, james franco, maybe. yeah, james franco.
My dick has a hole in it
e.m. forster writes like douglas adams
I know my life has ceased to have meaning when I read this post and I go, “Shouldn’t it be ‘whom’?”
Also, speaking of grammatical prescriptivism, DFW. Over and over again.
2+2 = 5
I got Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin (in addition to DFW).
H.P. Lovecraft. uuuuuu
Vladimir Nabokov! What a delightful compliment to receive from a computer.
To the cleaning and preening
Of the cats, cats, cats –
Of the cats, cats, cats, cats,
Cats, cats, cats –
To the purring and demurring of the cats!
2+2 = (e^iπ) + (6103515625^(1/14))
wooooooooooooooord
Sorry to be a killjoy, but I got Nabokov, too, so you probably shouldn’t be tooooo flattered.
(On the third try. First try I got Dan Brown. Felt like I was on Internet Candid Camera or something, embarrassed all by myself in a darkened room. Second try I got Raymond Chandler. Go figure.)
fiction: stephen king
nonfiction: david foster wallace
A three year old child on two hits of acid:
http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2010/07/15/which-famous-writer-do-you-write-like/
DFW (draft #1 of a short story i’m currently working on), Charles Dickens (draft #2 of same story), DFW (#3), Raymond Chandler (a very short story) Stephanie Meyer (another very short story), Palahniuk (novel its entirety), Stephen King (excerpt from that novel), Dan Brown (paragraph in the beginning where I list all the things that have been published and the places where those things were published)
A three year old child on two hits of acid:
http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2010/07/15/which-famous-writer-do-you-write-like/
DFW (draft #1 of a short story i’m currently working on), Charles Dickens (draft #2 of same story), DFW (#3), Raymond Chandler (a very short story) Stephanie Meyer (another very short story), Palahniuk (novel its entirety), Stephen King (excerpt from that novel), Dan Brown (paragraph in the beginning where I list all the things that have been published and the places where those things were published)