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[whitereflection]

I write like
Stephen King

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

...what? Wat. Brb, killing myself and/or never writing again. (Sorry. Read a lot of his stuff in high school based on a teacher rec. Only liked The Shining--and even that just for the plot. Not fond of his writing style.)

Now if I could just find one of these that'd tell me that I wrote poetry like Bukowski and all would be forgiven. Except that won't happen b/c I wrote poetry like an emo high schooler. :|


Edit: That was based off a short fic I did (the post-5.22 one), but a journal entry also came up King. >_< But trying that poem, Songsense, from the other day gave me Mario Puzo as a result. Not familiar with that author, hm. (Re-edit: Okay, after checking Wikipedia, all I have to say is o_O...what, again. Oy.)

Comments

[finnigan-geist.livejournal.com]

I really think the meme goes mostly off of word usage - like certain words or kinds of words, sentence length, etc. It's a very rough approximation. And anyway, King sells! And of the bestsellers you could get, King's not bad - one of my friends got Dan Brown. And I keep getting James Joyce - who reads him? I don't know, having never read him, but I'm betting the answer is "jerks." The only exceptions I got were Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nabokov, and Leo Tolstoy. idk!

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

For some reason I wouldn't have minded any of those results, not like the way getting King bugged me. ^^; Maybe because even if I'm not fond of all of them (never really could develop a taste for Joyce or Nabokov), at least they're 'classic literature. Whereas I sort of feel King is kinda trashpulp. ^^;

The gal I yoinked the meme from said that one of the results she saw was "YOUR MOM" and do you KNOW how damned much that would have amused me? Seriously, do you KNOW.

[finnigan-geist.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think King's a couple steps above trashpulp! At least, maybe, depending on the book? I really, really like some of his non-supernatural stories, like Delores Claiborne and all the short stories in Different Seasons. Also, reading his meta, he seems at least like a thoughtful author. I don't know, I wouldn't mind King, although I seriously doubt I'd get him, because I write so little action, and I really think the meme generates results based on certain words.

And, idk, I'm a little weirded out that I got the same result for about 80% of my writing - some stupid Bleach stuff as well as this serious long epic I'm currently working on - because that makes me feel like I don't have enough of a shift in tone, and I see that as more of a problem than any specific result. :/

Also, lol, I'm 95% sure the "Your Mom" result is just from fiddling with the code:

I write like
YOUR MOM

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software (http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/). Analyze your writing! (http://iwl.me)

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