Sunday 17 November 2013

NaNo Procrastination and Style Analysis

Well, I had a few days this week where I got stuck on my NaNoWriMo work and, procrastination being what it is, I ended up having some fun with the 'I Write Like' website. I took all my stories from Myriad Imaginings, the anthology we created from our Wittegen Press Giveaway Games, 31 days of short stories, which we ran in 2012, and stuck them through the analysis engine.  The idea is that the engine tells you which famous writer your work resembles. And, erm, well, I can't say I'm convinced, but this is what came out the other end.




Incubus Shadows
This is the first story in the anthology. It's erotic romance and it's explicit. Apparently that means I write like James Joyce. I'm wondering if the algorithm picks this if all the other matches fail :)


I write like
James Joyce
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

Samling Born
This one's about werewolves, contemporary werewolves in a rock band, which doesn't strike me as Arthur C Clarke material, but, hey ho! ;P


I write like
Arthur Clarke
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

The Name's The Game
I have to say I've never read any Margaret Atwood, so I can't say if a vampire hostage situation is anything like her stuff, although I suppose since it is set post World War III then the content could have influenced the algorithm.



I write like
Margaret Atwood
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The Gift
This one's high fantasy: wizards, dragons and spells. I have absolutely no idea if it matches with the analysis.



I write like
Cory Doctorow
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Undercover
So Undercover is all about a cop, a strip club and a double cross, so, yeah, when Raymond Chandler came up, I wasn't surprised. Somehow, though, I don't think Raymond wrote explicit erotic m/m fiction!



I write like
Raymond Chandler
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BFF
Cyberpunk, really? This story is horror, possessed dolls and nasty school girls.


I write like
William Gibson
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The End Of The Journey
I have to say I was shocked by this. Dan Brown, really?! Content again, methinks, although this is word matching, because my demons and secret societies fighting each other have nothing to do with Literati and I don't mention the Roman Catholic church once. :P


I write like
Dan Brown
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Just One Day
Floored, absolutely floored. I cannot put this down to content, because I don't remember J.K writing about haunted houses that drive people mad on only one night of the year. Can't see the pattern in this one :).


I write like
J. K. Rowling
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Girl In The Mirror
Being a big Neil Gaiman fan, I had to clap at this one, however dodgy the algorithm doing the matching :). This is first person paranormal adventure with a side order of weird fatalism, so content again.


I write like
Neil Gaiman
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

A Special Catch
My second hit for Cory. Sci-Fi erotic romance, at the opposite end of the spectrum to The Gift.



I write like
Cory Doctorow
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

Song For A Sovereign
I laughed my arse off at this match. Not because it's my second J.K. Rowling match, but because this is a spin-off story from a set of stories I'm working on that started life as a Harry Potter fanfic :D. Admittedly, this is high fantasy, a flash into the history of the world I am building, so I can only put the match down to magic and a central character with a destiny (although I'd liken the content, not style, more to a David Eddings than a J.K Rowling).


I write like
J. K. Rowling
I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

Queen of My World
Psychological horror with a side of monster at the end - ol' Isaac. eh! It is a very clipped, brief style.


I write like
Isaac Asimov
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All In The Mind
Hit #3 for J.K., and this one is sci-fi, telepathy and robots, so I can't work out what the match would be with the content.


I write like
J. K. Rowling
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A New Path
Well, this is a sequel to The End of The Journey, so it should have been Dan Brown if I was being consistent with my style, so, woe is me, I'm an inconsistent author!


I write like
Stephen King
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So, according to the 'I Write Like' analyser, I'm a Rowlingesque Doctorow with a side order of Joycian Clarke and a Gaiman-like Kingly vision and just a touch of Asimovian Atwood-Chandler-Gibson-Brown. Nothing like a having a split writing personality! ;P Somehow, I won't be taking this too seriously, but it was a fun waste of an hour.

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