Yeah, from what I can gather, that's exactly how the writing is analyzed. Not very reliable, imo. I kept getting Chuck Palahniuk, probably because of his long, involved, compound sentences. It's a fun widget but nothing to feel uplifted or dejected over. The only "bad" (bad in this case being not acclaimed by the larger literary community) author in the bunch to be disappointed at is Dan Brown, anyway.
man, at first i was like LOL DAN BROWN WHAT IS THIS.
and then i was like hmmm, i mean, is it really that bad? dan brown's writing style is pretty accessible to the vast majority of people and easy to understand. i've always been one for simple writing. it all fits! \o/
still a moderately interesting way to waste half an hour though, haha. xD
NONE OF MY FIC EVER REALLY CAME UP THE SAME EXCEPT MARK TWAIN AND CHUCK P CAME UP MOST OFTEN so IDFK what to make of it. Apparently I do nothing consistently, not even when I write 12 things in the same 3 week period.
RP is all different too, one Snafu post gets Dickens, another gets Doyle, and then my meta gets Brown and Lovecraft. I know not what to make of this.
The good news is this reminded me that I keep meaning to reread All These Roads or at least the porny bits. SO I WILL GO DO THAT I GUESS.
LOL I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE YOUR WRITING STYLE IS SO AMAZING AND DISTINCTIVE ASDKLFAJSDKLF. SERIOUSLY YOU COULD LIKE, HIDE THE NAMES OF AUTHORS AND GIVE ME LIKE SECTIONS OF PROSE TO READ AND I COULD PROB PICK OUT WHICH ONES ARE YOURS.
lololol I ACTUALLY RAN THE ORIGINAL ROADVERSE THROUGH THE MEME and it literally came up with like EVERYTHING. nothing stuck. i was like LOL WTF.
MEANWHILE THE PORNY BITS ARE LIKE STEPHEN KING AND JAMES JOYCE.
*Ignores White Collar rant due to sad disinterest.* The show makes me yawn, nothing personal, it just feels like they tried too hard and globbed all the good ideas together rather messily (though I have only watched the first few episodes, so maybe I should give it another go)
I got Dan Brown... a lot. It seems the more parentheses I used in a piece the more like him my style was orz. Things with less parentheses were Tolstoy. Every single one of the things I have written for my Durarara!! steam punk verse (most not online yet), however, seem to be Chuck Palahniuk. Which is cool, because I rather love him. But everything is still mostly wrong feeling to me, haha. Ah Well.
On your writing style, from a more human perspective, you write a bit like if Neil Gaiman and Murakami Haruki had a love child. Though of course, it's very much different. Haha, well I'm not the best writing analysist, so it hardly matters.
sad about the white collar. i personally find it a very engaging show--pacing of the action is pretty good and it definitely requires you to be culturally knowledgeable in order to understand many of the jokes and references. the acting can be a little stilted at times but definitely not between the two main characters--and they're on screen together for 80% of the time anyway so not that big of a deal.
looking forward to the steam punk verse whenever you decide to put that online!
i love neil gaiman and i think he's got such a subtly simplistic style. :) being compared to him is an honor--thanks! not sure who murakami haruki is though--i fail at most eastern things despite being asian haha.
Steam punk verse is a series of character drabbles that I'm only half way through with. I'm debating posting it in sections or all at once.
I met Neil Gaiman once, I think I was around ten/eleven. He was the guest of honour at Balticon and my mom was the guest liaison, so I actually got to converse with him. I liked his books, he liked children. It was kind of cool.
Murakami Haruki is awesomely cool, and most all of his books have been translated in such into English (though they may be hard to find at a bookstore). My favourites by him are (the ever popular and epic) Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. The Wiki article is more helpful than myself for information, however.
ASDKJFSDF TRUFAX: I THINK THAT TINY SENTENCES ARE LIKE 70% MORE EFFECTIVE THAN HUGE LONG SENTENCES LOL. whenever i edit, i always find myself cutting sentences up into tinier fragments.
haha sjkhdfs not familiar with stephen king? like 5 years ago i might have suggested him wholeheartedly but his writing gets a little tedious to read after a while--like he's just doing it to fill up pages--ALTHOUGH PROBABLY NOT AS BAD AS SOME CRAZY AUTHORS cough victor hugo.
nowadays i just push people towards neil gaiman 8D
LOL I always remember my grade 11 teacher saying "brevity is the wit of soul" so now I can't really write long sentences (or stories 5,000+ words WOE)...unless it's a pseudo-run-on sentence. XD
Nope, never read Stephen King...I haven't been reading fiction a lot lately, period. :/
I have never seen White Collar, and I expect watching it would throw me into a state of distinct disgruntlement because that guy resembles this guy I used to...know, let's say, a little too much. And he was a putz, in the end. So...meh.
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And that I Write Like thing is so random. I copy-pasted a few separate paragraphs of this one thing I wrote for class, and it kept giving me different results if it was a prose section or a dialogue section...weird. :P I don't wanna write like James Joyce!! D:
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and then i was like hmmm, i mean, is it really that bad? dan brown's writing style is pretty accessible to the vast majority of people and easy to understand. i've always been one for simple writing. it all fits! \o/
still a moderately interesting way to waste half an hour though, haha. xD
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RP is all different too, one Snafu post gets Dickens, another gets Doyle, and then my meta gets Brown and Lovecraft. I know not what to make of this.
The good news is this reminded me that I keep meaning to reread All These Roads or at least the porny bits. SO I WILL GO DO THAT I GUESS.
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lololol I ACTUALLY RAN THE ORIGINAL ROADVERSE THROUGH THE MEME and it literally came up with like EVERYTHING. nothing stuck. i was like LOL WTF.
MEANWHILE THE PORNY BITS ARE LIKE STEPHEN KING AND JAMES JOYCE.
ugh james joyce I DON'T EVEN MENTION IRELAND!!!
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I got Dan Brown... a lot. It seems the more parentheses I used in a piece the more like him my style was orz. Things with less parentheses were Tolstoy. Every single one of the things I have written for my Durarara!! steam punk verse (most not online yet), however, seem to be Chuck Palahniuk. Which is cool, because I rather love him. But everything is still mostly wrong feeling to me, haha. Ah Well.
On your writing style, from a more human perspective, you write a bit like if Neil Gaiman and Murakami Haruki had a love child. Though of course, it's very much different. Haha, well I'm not the best writing analysist, so it hardly matters.
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looking forward to the steam punk verse whenever you decide to put that online!
i love neil gaiman and i think he's got such a subtly simplistic style. :) being compared to him is an honor--thanks!
not sure who murakami haruki is though--i fail at most eastern things despite being asian haha.
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Steam punk verse is a series of character drabbles that I'm only half way through with. I'm debating posting it in sections or all at once.
I met Neil Gaiman once, I think I was around ten/eleven. He was the guest of honour at Balticon and my mom was the guest liaison, so I actually got to converse with him. I liked his books, he liked children. It was kind of cool.
Murakami Haruki is awesomely cool, and most all of his books have been translated in such into English (though they may be hard to find at a bookstore). My favourites by him are (the ever popular and epic) Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. The Wiki article is more helpful than myself for information, however.
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lol Stephen King abuses English like that too? Hmmm.
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haha sjkhdfs not familiar with stephen king? like 5 years ago i might have suggested him wholeheartedly but his writing gets a little tedious to read after a while--like he's just doing it to fill up pages--ALTHOUGH PROBABLY NOT AS BAD AS SOME CRAZY AUTHORS cough victor hugo.
nowadays i just push people towards neil gaiman 8D
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Nope, never read Stephen King...I haven't been reading fiction a lot lately, period. :/
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[/has logical reasons for everything]
And that I Write Like thing is so random. I copy-pasted a few separate paragraphs of this one thing I wrote for class, and it kept giving me different results if it was a prose section or a dialogue section...weird. :P I don't wanna write like James Joyce!! D:
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aksjhdfjksdfsd I WISH WE WERE ALL AS LUCKY, BB. except not so much about the being a jerk bit. :(
LOL SERIOUSLY RIGHT. i got james joyce a couple of times too and was confused because i NEVER ONCE MENTIONED IRELAND.
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