15 thoughts on “I write like . . . H. P. Lovecraft

  1. I came across this the other day. As with you, HP Lovecraft was my most frequent result – about half the posts I put in – but I also got a good amount of James Joyce, Isaac Asimov, and Cory Doctorow mixed in.Report

  2. Fun fact. Any piece of correctly formatted correspondence you put in to the program will come out as David Foster Wallace. I have no idea why.

    It’s actually a bit eerie.Report

  3. I too wound up as H.P. Lovecraft, based on the first few pages of my law review Comment. (Appropriate; reading law reviews often costs me a few points of sanity.) A couple of my blog posts returned H.G. Wells and Cory Doctorow.Report

  4. Ten samples produced these results, in alphabetical order:

    Dan Brown: 1
    Arthur Clarke: 1
    Cory Doctorow: 1
    H.P. Lovecraft: 4
    David Foster Wallace: 3

    First, a result that includes even one in ten incidences of “Dan Brown” is galling. Second, is “H.P. Lovecraft” code for “uses long sentences?” Finally, is “David Foster Wallace” code for “uses semicolons somewhat correctly”?Report

  5. Odd. I got David Foster Wallace multiple times. Never having knowingly read any of his work, I got a collection of essays from my local library to sample. The excerpts I’ve presented to friends and family are some decent writing, and all agree that there is an odd similarity to my style of both writing and speaking.

    On the other hand , I uploaded a lengthy quote by Robert Heinlein, which was analysed as Cory Doctorow.Report

  6. First try from an academic paper got Cory Doctorow.

    The second one, from an old locked Livejournal post, got Stephen King.Report

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