Well now...this is flattering...

[rabid1st]

Apparently, I write descriptive passages like Charles Dickens, sex scenes like Anne Rice, and snappy dialogue like Stephanie Meyers. I could take that and roll with it, hey?

Notice which badge I took...

I write like
Stephenie Meyer

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

And I hate her books. But the thing is...they sell like bottled ice water on a hot day. So, who am I to argue with that! This could, however, explain why I am so very critical of my own writing and mentally refer to myself as a hack!

EDIT: Oh, wait! Hang on! I just did What Wild Geese Know. And I came up with Stephen King pretty steadily on the style points...but get this...for my dialogue...

I write like
P. G. Wodehouse

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Suddenly, I am polishing my fingernails on the lapel of my flannel pajamas. Look at that! I am not a hack. TA-DA! On the other hand, I do appear to be something of a populist writer, don't I? Wodehouse was writing frothy stage comedies, really. Where, I ask you, is the William Faulkner badge? Or the Trollope one? Probably reserved for MissMurchison!

Comments

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Apparently I write like Chuck Palahniuk. I don't know enough about him to be insulted or flattered.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I cannot enlighten you as I have never read Chuck. But I might check him out now that I know he writes like you. Also, his name sort of rhymes...always good.

Rae

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

He wrote 'Fight Club' and he has sticky-out ears - this is what Google has told me.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Ah, then he is a well respected bloke in literary circles. Unlike Stephanie Meyer who is completely loathed in literary circles. We stare at her sales figures in open mouthed wonder. But this encourages me as a writer...because it shows that I don't really know that I'm writing good stuff...and therefore...I should just keep at it.

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

You are a superb writer! And a kind person. I still have out RL emails saved when I wrote you about some of your K/L fics. Glad you are doing better. The world is a more civilized and lovelier with you in it.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm blushing all over now. It does my heart good to know that I struck you so favorably in our email exchanges. And also it is good to hear from a K/L fan after all this time. I have yet to watch all of BSG. I still can't bring myself to face S4.

And, given the size of the smile on my face, I think the world must be a more civilized and lovelier place with YOU in it as well. :->

Rae

[astitchintime-9.livejournal.com]

As a test, I went to the Georgette Heyer website and cut&pasted some excerpts into the analyzer : she also came up as Anne Rice (more than once!) and - little surprise here - William Shakespeare. So, by extension... you are in very good company!

OTOH, I am disappointed to learn that the analyzer doesn't deem G.Heyer a classic author in her own right! After so many authors have actually used her as their model!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Many of those people credit Jane Austen. I think the more flowery descriptions came up Rice. Further testing of my writing seems to find me coming up as Stephen King most often...and I'm really fine with that solution. I only wish I could write as prolifically as Mr. King.

I imagine my readers wish I could write that prolifically as well. :wink:

Rae

[astitchintime-9.livejournal.com]

J.Austen, eh? Well, I just ran a trial on her (courtesy of Project Gutenberg), too, to see if the analyzer'd recognize her ... And it did. Sort of.

It matched P&P with her, but put Emma with E.A.Poe and Persuasion with C.Dickens. (You said that you came up Dickens, also ... By extension, are you Austen-ish, then, too?)

It's fun, but because the results are all over the place for the established authors, I can't interpret the results for myself when I come up as a different IWL each time. FWIW, though, I did come up as Poe (=Austen?!) once, as well as A.Christie, Dan Brown and Stephen King. As those authors are all on my dislike list, it's no wonder I choose not to write and despair of what I've written!

;-)


P.S. - If it needs saying: I like your work, your voice, your imagination -- regardless of any other authors to whom that analyzer compares you.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

So, we both hate Stephen King, hey?

Actually, it would be wrong to say that I hate him. I just don't read him anymore and I've never been THAT into horror. I read every book her wrote upto Christine...then I took a very long break. Then, I read a few others. Firestarter and The Shining are my favorites.

I like being compared to Charles Dickens, but I think it was just a coincidence. The majority of my samples, in the end, came up as Stephen King.

And it is worth more than any old analyzer's opinion to know that YOU find my work, voice and imagination likable.

Rae

[princessblue791.livejournal.com]

Stephanie Myer? How insulting! I've always thought you write like Janet Fitch.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Oh, "White Oleander," now I'm flattered. But that's a bit of pressure for me, too.

I think the consensus, after running lots of samples through was that I write like Stephen King. Of course, I don't write on the same THEMES as King. But again, I sort of like that my work would have massive popular appeal. I agree that Meyer is insulting in some ways...but I used to think, reading Lilian Jackson Braun, that I could easily write as well as she does. And frankly, I've always felt I could write BETTER than Meyer.
And I could certainly do with her fanbase and film contracts. :grin:

Rae