Comments on: You write like a girl

By: Richard Crawford

Richard Crawford — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:19:11 +0000

Yeah. It also told me that I write like David Foster Wallace and like Stephen King. And as I recall it told Margaret Atwood herself that she writes like Stephen King. So… Yeah. A full cellar full of salt.

By: John W. Oliver

John W. Oliver — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:07:57 +0000

Some friends and I have done a lot of sampling with this engine, and I would take whatever it says with a large spoonful of salt. It’s fun to see what it says, but don’t let it be a measure of your actual ability.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:56:34 +0000

I vote silly.

By: BonnieRS

BonnieRS — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:45:32 +0000

And apparently when Margaret Atwood entered her prose sample, she was told she writes like Stephen King.

I guess all it means is that we all write :p

By: Maren

Maren — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:22:24 +0000

Eh. I put in three short stories and a blog entry and got four different authors (one of them Atwood). So either I’ve got multiple personalities or I’m 75% dude. Or these kinds of tests are silly.

By: SarahG

SarahG — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:32:37 +0000

What gets me is that, so far, almost all the writers they’ve cited are male. You’ve made a rare accomplishment; not even Margaret Atwood scored as Margaret Atwood.

Maybe you’re writing from a woman’s point of view, but it’s a lesbian.

Me, I keep getting Chuck Palahniuk and Dan Brown… and I’ve never read either.