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I write like Tolstoy!
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Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:57 am
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BlueMaxx wrote:^ Aw, I would've been honored to be Douglas Adams or Palahniuk. Very cool.
Ah yes I forgot you're quite the Hitchhiker's fan aren't you.
And I would be honored to be compared to Adams...King...and maybe Palahniuk....if this little test was in any way valid.
29 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:08 am
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^ It was totally valid! RIV told me to not be a downer, so... ;P
Of course you did.kidspider2099 wrote:I got oscar wilde.
30 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:30 am
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Fucking ouch.colossus1979 wrote:i put in one of my shorts and got stephanie meyer
...I got oscar wilde.
I entered a variety of different amateur movie critiques I have done and got Arthur C. Clarke and Cory Doctorow (who, incidentally, wrote a book about living in Disney World) twice, and then H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Vladimir Nabokov once each. Either my writing style isn't as consistent as I thought, or this website has a pretty wide margin of error.
31 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:32 am
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I write like Dan Brown
32 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:48 am
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Just for fun I put in some song lyrics and here's what I got...
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Baby Got Back.....J. D. Salinger
Metallica - Enter Sandman...William Shakespeare
Ratt - Round and Round....Mark Twain
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity...Stephen King
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train....Jane Austen
Rush - Subdivisions....Dan Brown (too bad it wasn't Ayn Rand
)Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy...James Fenimore Cooper
Weird Al - White & Nerdy....Cory Doctorow
The Beatles - A Day in the Life....Raymond Chandler
Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher (Blues Bros. version) ....Daniel Defoe
Sapphire Gypsy wrote:Sting sung about Nabakov.
And since you gave me the idea for this Sapphire Gypsy..
The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me....J. K. Rowling
33 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:05 am
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BlueMaxx wrote:^ It was totally valid! RIV told me to not be a downer, so... ;P
Oh well....I'm certainly not going to argue with him...but still I...hmmm...
.... HOLY CRAP...I just copied the text to a Sherlock Holmes story to that test and when I clicked analyze it said Arthur Conan Doyle ...so maybe it is valid...somewhat...kinda....so...does that mean that maybe something I wrote maybe had a touch of Douglas Adams and Stephen King somewhere in it... 
34 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:27 am
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^ You've inspired me, sir. And I think I've figured it out. They've filed the works of many great writers and words used seem to trigger the response. I put in excerpts from Stephen King and Jane Austen books and they came out accordingly.
Will say that I found something interesting. Put in an excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman and it came up with Ursula K. Le Guin, one of his favorite writers.
Although, I did an excerpt of Stephanie Meyers The Host and it came out James Joyce. (Trying to discover plagiarism.
) Sooo...maybe not all the works are in this search engine?
Will say that I found something interesting. Put in an excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman and it came up with Ursula K. Le Guin, one of his favorite writers.
Although, I did an excerpt of Stephanie Meyers The Host and it came out James Joyce. (Trying to discover plagiarism.
) Sooo...maybe not all the works are in this search engine? 35 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:46 am
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After doing several of my own chapters in the thinger and getting different authors, but repeats in chapters I felt were alike I decided to see how well this thing worked. So I grabbed a quote from an interview with J.K.Rowling.
"I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me."
And it said it sounded like J.K. Rowling. Now how cool is that?
"I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me."
And it said it sounded like J.K. Rowling. Now how cool is that?
36 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:39 pm
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i put in my half life short and got H.P. Lovecraft. 
so much better.
http://iwl.me/s/147eabd8
so much better. http://iwl.me/s/147eabd8
37 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:49 pm
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H. P. Lovecraft (my recent "Hidden Gems", published today; my latest "BLAARGH!"), David Foster Wallace (my "6-Pack" from last week; my latest "It's a Trap!" about Special Forces; my "Holy Crap! Remember...?" about Dial H for Hero) and Cory Doctorow (my recent post in the Goon movie thread).
Wow...Mnemosis wrote:Aight, wrote two scenes from "my comic" and got Stephen King and Vladimir Nabokov respectively. While I'd never heard of the latter, reading about him makes me pleased to be associated with him in any way.
38 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:50 pm
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Edit: Apparently my columns are in the same vein as Lovecraft and Foster Wallace, while my forum posts are like Doctorow's writings...
39 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:08 pm
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Does anybody else think that it just randomly selects an author and claims that you write like them?
40 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:55 pm
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This thing is cool. I put in two paragraphs from King's Cell, and it came back... Stephen King. I think that's impressive. And yes I saw Blue did the same.
41 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:39 pm
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comicgeekelly wrote:Does anybody else think that it just randomly selects an author and claims that you write like them?
i put in a paragraph from deadly hollows and got J.K. rowlings. so i don't think it's random.
42 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:11 pm
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You cheater!
43 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:22 pm
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I got H.P. Lovecraft. Boosh.
44 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:13 pm
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45 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:22 pm
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I just posted this:
And got this...
http://iwl.me/b/85a62134
Why am I not surprised?
fdsdfdfdfd dfd dfdfgt kmknk
dfdfdfdfd dfdf ffgfg dfsdf
fddaaaaaaaa ffdf fdfdf dfdfd
And got this...
http://iwl.me/b/85a62134
Why am I not surprised?
46 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:21 pm
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^^^^ 
47 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:05 pm
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see? friggin damn thing...compared old stuff to her....but the new stuff i got lovecraft so i'm ok. 
48 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:02 am
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What is it with Lovecraft?!?
49 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:20 am
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I posted an entry from my blog and got Cory Doctorow. Kinda funny. I also put in a poem I wrote that I am actually quite proud of and got Stephanie Meyer. Now IF ONLY I could get published and be that rich!
Last edited by C's Lady on Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:44 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : I didn't read everyone else's first! LOL)
50 Re: I write like Tolstoy! Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:11 am
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BlueMaxx wrote:I'm wondering how it's done. Words used and structure? Because my short story was lackluster. IDK. Not to be a downer. :P
There's some kind of recognition software going on. My OtLB on Dark Tower got Steven King, and my 6-Pack on Green Lanterns (with lots of alien names) got Douglas Adams (who uses lots of weird alien names).
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