For fun, I pasted my blog post "Thought on an Old Farmhouse" and found out I write (at least that post) like
I did not know he wrote "Fight Club." I've seen the movie...Not sure what to make of that comparison.
Thought I'd try again with "Adventures in Iowa", a little different post, and here's the result:
I write like
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Reading up on Wikipedia, I find that the Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years." Hmmm! Good! However, reading on, I see that Wallace committed suicide 2 years ago. Hmmm.... not so good.
Well, if nothing else, it was fun.
This was really fun! All I could think of to use for writing samples were emails I had sent. So I copied an email I sent to you recently, and it came back as a Stephen King knockoff. I don't know how many times I've said my life story reads like a Stephen King novel - now I finally have proof. :)
ReplyDeleteOn Tries #2 and #3, I also got David Foster Wallace. I have no idea who he is, but if you got him too, he must be pretty good. Except for the suicide stuff.