Have you heard about this site called I Write Like? It's a site where you can see which famous writer you write like. You simply copy-paste any of your (English) written works on the space provided and the site will instantly tell who you write like. Galing, no?
So I took a writing sample from my blog and placed it on the box. After analyzing my sentence structures and word usage, the site claims I write like Cory Doctorow.
Honestly, I've never heard of the guy. Wikipeda says he is a Canadian blogger and journalist who is also co-editor of Boing Boing. I decided then to check some of his works and saw some very eerie similarities with our writing styles. So does this mean I Write Like actually works?
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| This is the guy. Gotta love those glasses. |
I tried placing one of my short stories instead of an article and H.P. Lovecraft, one of my ultimate idols, came up. I also tried posting another essay and came up with H.G. Wells. It's not a surprise that the site comes up with different writers each time you post something new, so I can only suggest that you post a written work which you think fully encapsulates or defines you as a writer, a piece which you are a hundred percent comfortable with.
For fun, I tried copy-pasting an excerpt from Harry Potter and the site does come up with J.K. Rowling, and Dan Brown for an excerpt of Angels and Demons.
Give it a shot. Go to iwl.me and in the comments section below, tell us who you write like. I have a feeling there are gonna be a lot of Cory Doctorows out there.
34 comments:
lols I also write like Cory Doctorow XD
lols I also write like Cory Doctorow XD
weee.. pano kaming mga tagalog writer.. wahehhee...
i got stephen king. wahahaha :P
nag iiba iba though which paragraph i paste. I got cory doctorow and david foster wallace too
Stephen King!! wow! :D
I think a lot of bloggers would get Cory Doctorow, especially those bloggers na personal ang attack sa blogs nila. may pagka natural at conversational ang language ni Cory e.
tried this out before...got Stephen King. after that hindi na ako naglagay ng iba pang paragraph baka kasi mag-iba pa hahahaha
one of my fave,,, stephen king!!
Vladimir Nabokov.
O_O
ooohhh, Lolita. ikaw, rob ha. :p
I got Arthur Clarke. Weee~ He's one of my fave. :)
I guess our favorite authors influence our writing styles one way or another. :)
Masubukan nga!
Bakla ang lumabas na writer, si Cristy Fermin. Wahahahaha
go ahead, try it. tapos sabihin mo samin kung ano.
I write like Cory Doctorow too. :D
yehey! apir! :D
I got Cory as well! Twice. I also don't know who he is.
hahaha.. paks kinuha ko yung umeenglish ako sa pagcomment at nabigla ako kasi DAN BROWN lumabas.. paks.. hahaha..
at against pa naman ako sa mga sulat niya.. hahaha how wierd...
I tried this before, I write like Chuck Palahniuk!
Dan brown daw ako, hehehe ang hindi ko maintindihan ay kung BAKIT :) hehehe
I write like Will! William Shakespeare! How could that be. Hindi naman poem o drama ang pinost ko.LOL.
Wow, may Shakespeare din pala!
hehe, ayos naman si Dan Brown ha.
uy! fave writer ko yun, :D
Sinubukan kong magpost ng tagalog essay, lumabas ay si JK rowling. Hehe
I guess most bloggers would get Cory.:D
LOL. So archaic pala ang writing style ko.
haha.. katuwaan lang yun.. Dan Brown din result ng akin..:)
haha..saya naman..sino kaya ang si John G?:)
i got chuck palahniuk. weird naman. lol
cool. what if you really write like palahniuk talaga? :D
For my blogs I got Cory Doctorow too! For my Creative Non-fiction and Fiction I got James Joyce and J.K Rowling!
cool, you got Rowling! :D
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