The Extra-Solar Union of Systems Archive

I just found out about the I Write Like site that takes a sample of your writing you submit and runs it through an algolrythm and compares it to several other fameous authors.

Everyone should try this just for fun to see what you get compared to.

Please submit a link to the post on NS you use or quote the post here and then your rating.

I will obviously go first.

The Post:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 1#p2682721


The Result:

http://iwl.me/s/4ed0f33f

The Post

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... ss#p558722

The Result

http://iwl.me/b/a85d5606

Ah, H.G. Wells! A favorite of mine. One of the classics!

THE POST

The Result: Stephen King

Another Post

The Result: Douglas Adams

A THIRD POST

The Result: Dan Brown

I submitted three different posts all of relatively decent length from three different threads and got these results.

I'm actually pretty happy with them all, even the Dan Brown one. I've never had a problem with Brown's writing style; it's easy and fun to read (it's just his stories that are predictable and silly), and of course King and Adams are great people to be compared to

I've actually submitted three or four recient posts and gotten the same result each time, Clarke.

I found the results of a quite long and deep analysis quite interesting. Mostly Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and David Foster Wallace. First, Solar Communes only posts.

Ftaghn Cthulhu

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 3#p1267783

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 5#p1312135

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 0#p1390860

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 8#p1399818

H. P. Lovecraft

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 87#p425887

Stephen King

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 8#p1410488

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 4#p1280704

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 9#p1294319

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 0#p1399410

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 18#p436518

David Foster Wallace

Wikipedia wrote:Wallace's fiction is often concerned with irony.

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 0#p1321930

Douglas Adams

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 8#p1405678

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 16#p448216

Dan Brown

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 5#p1419695 (and all posts after it combined)

Edgar Allan Poe

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 30#p352730

Ursula K. Le Guin

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 33#p354133

Arthur C. Clarke

And my posts with Space Poland, on the other hand, were mostly Asimov in results, with more David Foster Wallace too:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 48#p228248

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 27#p267127

Isaac Asimov

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 19#p311419

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=53714 (Entire thread)

David Foster Wallace

And then, to check for sure, I took a Modern Tech post too:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 1112#p1112

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Obvious conclusion is obvious.

I kept getting DFW. This is appropriate.

From this sample (first thing I could find, tbh), Bram Stoker.

Xenonier wrote:I kept getting DFW. This is appropriate.

I don't intentionally write to create ironies. Or maybe I actually do.

Apparently my work is both David Forster Wallace and Vladimir Nabokov. This seems so right.