I write like . . . H. P. Lovecraft

Will

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  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. Mopey Duns says:

    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. North says:

    Anne Coulter??? Noooooo!!!Report

  4. LawMonkey says:

    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

  5. Jaybird says:

    David Foster Wallace.

    I think it’s because I say “I” a lot.Report

  6. I was also David Foster Wallace, but I think it’s because I overuse hyphens. I got Cory Doctorow the second time around, and then H.P Lovecraft.Report

  7. 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

  8. Jonathan says:

    I put in two, and both times got Kurt Vonnegut.Report

  9. Phranqulyn says:

    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

  10. Banzai Bunny says:

    It says I write like Annie Rice, who is presumably Anne Rice’s talentless niece or something.Report

  11. JosephFM says:

    First try from an academic paper got Cory Doctorow.

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

  12. Pat Cahalan says:

    Edgar Allen Poe.

    Pardon me while I go soak my tortured mind in some despair.Report