Rudyard Kipling, apparently. Stranger and stranger. I did adore the Jungle Book as a child. Well then. Most curious.
That's a very interesting program. I wonder, how does it work? I'm going to run a few of the thing I've written through it and see if they all come back the same.

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>>15955

If I had to guess, it analyses sentence structure, how and when you use adjectives, adverbs, etc. I write pretty consistently, and most of my work results in a Stephen King comparison. I compared two of my pieces outside my normal style. One in a slightly gothic, highly romanticised style and got the fugly dame in the OP (AKA the lady that wrote Frankenstein. I really should have known that.

My other piece was a first person stream of conciousness that got me a match up with this handsome devil here, James Joyce.

Seems pretty decent and consistent to me, anyway.

I put in three stories.

The first was analyzed to be like Lovecraft (it had a lot of death-related imagery). Next was David Foster Wallace. It was an epistolary story. Third story was Vladimir Nabokov. The only link I can make is that one of the things it dealt with was synesthesia.

I've read much of all three of those authors, and none of my writings are very much like any of them.

According to three papers I wrote for a Philosophy of Film class, I write like P.G. Wodehouse, Edgar Allen Poe, and Gertrude Stein.

Three short essays for an Animation class result in Poe once and David Foster Wallace twice.

An autobiographical paper I wrote matches me to Cory Doctorow, and an analytical paper for the same class results in H.P. Lovecraft.

This post matches H.P. Lovecraft.

I pasted in a series of paragraphs from my last novel, just to see what I got and if it would change.

First paragraph of the prologue - Dan Brown.

First paragraph of chapter 1 - H.P. Lovecraft.

Random paragraph from chapter 21 - Arthur Clarke

Random paragraph from chapter 40 - Dan Brown.

Snippit of dialogue from chapter 40 - Cory Doctorow.

Last paragraph of epilogue - James Joyce.


So... wat? I can't imagine you could take random paragraphs from an author's work and known instantly who wrote it. Although, I have noticed that pasting in long, descriptive, non-dialogue paragraphs I tend to get Dan Brown or Kurt Vonnegut.

I wonder if perhaps it might be completely random.

>>15954
You don;t know who Mary Shelley is? Is this a troll? If not, get off /lit/ and/or go to school. By 'school', I mean fourth grade, of course.

>>15954
Isaac Asimov.

I'm really happy.

i put the word fuck in over and over

i write like william gibson

>>15960
Many authors have favorite words that they overuse. Shelley and Lovecraft are two authors I can identify from a single paragraph *if one of those paragraphs contain 1+ of those words.

>>15960

I imagine a greater sample would be more accurate. Try putting in all of those samples at once.

Lovecraft and Poe.



I'm very happy. (But in a dark, depressed way)

>>15965

Tried it again with much longer passages, five to ten paragraphs at a time. Get Kurt Vonnegut about 9 times out of 10. Feelsgoodman.jpg.

I pasted in a bit from my current work, a passage that contains a horrifyingly graphic description of a man surviving a nuclear bomb. Got Stephen King. Perhaps this thing does know what it's doing!

I got David Foster Wallace, who just happens to be my favorite author and the person whose style most informs my own.
It's one thing to think you're great, but quite another to be told so by machine.

I think it relies much on more on themes than anything else, honestly. I posted a short horror story and got lovecraft, a story about a lovesick loner and got Palahniuk, and an informed, witty monologue about Nazis yielded Vonnegut.

>>15976
I want to punch you in the face.

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I'll take that.

I got Anne Rice three times.

That's fucking fantastic, I love her style of writing.

I'm so chuffed.

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I must admit that I have not read much by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outside of assigned readings but all the same I am pleased by this result.

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after like, a gazillion tries, i finally got a writer I actually like

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Welp, this thing sure is accurate.

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Amazing accuracy.

From two paragraphs from a sexual semi-autobiography, I got Jonathan Swift and Ann Rice. From two paragraphs of a spy novel, I got Dan Brown and HP Lovecraft.

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Hmm.

James joice twice, and then Dan brown.

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This site is totally legit.

i put in one poem at a time and analyzed them- i've apparently gone through several phases.

My early poems seem to be in the vein of Margaret Atwood (a semi-known poet I'm only triflingly familiar with), Edgar Allen Poe (perhaps a bit of a gaudy flowery language phase), but the vast majority ofmy poems were scored along the lines of James Joyce- about 30 of them.

mfw I'm not a big fan of James Joyce -.-

>>16018
We've had more Atwood threads here than Poe and Joyce combined.

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I'll take it!

HP Lovecraft, apparently.

Funny, because I'm not particularly fond of horror.

stephen king
I wrote:
"u faggot. u die in whole. u need to get education faggot. my name john, u faggot."
Yeah, stephen king....

Anne Rice. Never writing again. Ever.

After being analyzed as writing like Lovecraft, I put a Lovecraft short story into the machine. Lovecraft writes like Oscar Wilde.

I pasted an essay I wrote against the death penalty.

I apparently write like H.P. Lovecraft

I'm okay with this, but I doubt it's right.

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>>16039
And apparently, Oscar Wilde writes like Jonathan Swift.

>>16039
>>16052
>>16053

Well, there's an amount of stylistic drift over the course of any author's work. I imagine that if you submitted the complete works of Lovecraft you might be more likely to get Lovecraft as a result.

I posted an essay on the socio-historical importance of the Sputnik I Satellite. Apparently I write like Arthur Clarke, and he is one of my favourite authors. I'm guessing I got that match-up due to talking about politics and spaceships though.

Aah! I got Dan Brown! Admittedly the piece I submitted was written on Ketamine and in a rush, but I'm still quite put out.

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It gave me H.P. Lovecraft and Douglas Adams for two of my pieces. Then, similar to >>16100, I submitted one of my older works and it gave me Dan Brown. After cleaning it up and removing the redundancies (tiny mistakes- use of "that" in place of "which", overuse of "though,") it gave me Vladimir Nabokov.

>>16100
Dan Brown also.

Which isn't too terrible. I at least have the opportunity to be rich, if not remembered.

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i got Ernest Hemingway. i enjoy his prose...for the most part

>>16105

I got him too, I've got to work on my literary capabilities.

apparently Cory Doctorow

no idea who that is

>>16111
lucky

So far I was compared to, among others, lovecraft, stephenie meyer (most likely because of how I tend to let the setting and characters unfold rather than shove them in the reader's face and state that they are slaves to their personallity)and walter dean myers (again I like to have suspense and intrugue in my writing). I don't really like any of stephenie meyer's writing, but I have respect for Lovecraft and Walter Dean Myers.

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Time to post this on 4chan and make some popcorn

Welp, I got compared to Poe and Lovecraft, which fucking kills me in a sense that apparently I subconsciously express my negativity even through writing.

I got J.R.R. Tolkien... not sure how to interpret that one.

>>16359
not the worst thing