{"id":8032,"date":"2013-07-18T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:11:12","slug":"who-do-i-write-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8032","title":{"rendered":"Who Do I Write Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a link to a website that claims to analyze text and tell you which author you write like. <\/a>Usually I’m really paranoid and don’t do that kind of thing. But I was bored, so I tried it. I ran three selections through it: one from my blog, one from an unfinished children’s story, and one from an unfinished novel.<\/p>\n

When I write for my blog, I write like . . .<\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I write children’s stories, I write like . . .<\/p>\n

Cory Doctorow<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I write novels, I write like . . .<\/p>\n

Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does this mean, if anything? I’m not sure. I like Margaret Atwood, usually (The Handmaiden’s Tale<\/em> was awesome, but I couldn’t get into Surfacing <\/em>or The Robber Bride<\/em>). I’ve never read any Cory Doctorow (is that an oversight?). I don’t mind being compared to Stephen King. Here’s what I wrote that produced that result:<\/p>\n

Charlie\u2019s grandmother always used to say, \u201cNo amount of sorry is going to fill that hole.\u201d Those were the words he wanted to throw at the people in their fine black clothes as they lined up to tell him how sorry they were for his loss. Not that it was their fault, but sometimes sorry sounds as hollow as your stomach after the flu. He didn\u2019t tell them that. He stood up straight, trying to look like the young gentleman his grandmother always exhorted him to be, and said thank you nicely.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie, it\u2019s time to go to the cemetery. Are you ready, son?\u201d asked Father Glen<\/p>\n

The boy nodded. He was tired. The stream of unfamiliar faces, the pinch of his new shoes, and the air so stale it hurt to breathe\u2014they had all taken their toll, and now he was about to lay to rest the only family he had ever known.\u00a0 He just wanted it over. There was a dark void on the other side of the funeral service, an uncertain future. It numbed him. Not knowing felt so much safer than the certainty of death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm. Loss, cemetery, dark void, funeral, death. Yeah, it does sound a little like Stephen King!<\/p>\n

Of course, then I looked up the site and found a Wikipedia article for it<\/a>. It would seem that everyone writes like Margaret Atwood or Stephen King! Well, aren’t we all awesome! Now if only we were as successful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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