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Who Do You Write Like?
From Meyer to Joyce, and various others in-between
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The website “I Write Like” has been making its way across the internet superhighway, a.k.a. Facebook walls and Twitter feeds, over the past few days. It’s incredibly easy to do. Just go to this website, copy and paste something you’ve written into “The Analyzer” and you’ll instantly see which writer your pain and anguish most resembles. I posted my Lady Gaga article and was told that I Write Like (I get it!): Cory Doctorow, the science fiction writer and co-editor of Boing Boing.
Of course, it’s wildly inaccurate (you’ll get a different author every time you analyze the same piece of writing; I did the Gaga article again, and got David Foster Wallace) and only exists to make people feel better about themselves (“Hey Paul, I went to this website and found out that I write like Stephen King. The world really is ready for my novel about a motorcycle that comes to life, only to be thrwated by a previously evil clown who turned good because of a small child’s ability to love!”). But like most memes, it’s kind of fun. Just don’t try it a second time.