This Explains It
The internet has a lot of horseshit on its world wide webs, but occasionally there are tools that blow your mind with the genius of it all. Today, I found the website I Write Like…
So you cut and paste some of your own writing into a box and then poorly paid gremlins inside the internet analyze your prose to determine which author’s style you most mirror. I picked some clips from my recent posts, and the gremlins started working.
Cory Doctorow? A Canadian science fiction writer for teens? You’ve probably heard of him, because his latest book is ranked 24,240th on Amazon, but I hadn’t.
I was looking for an upgrade, so I put some of my more serious writing to the test…
Well, I did really like the DaVinci Code…
But now I’d become obsessed. I pasted part of Her Royal Highness’ scholarship essay into the machine.
This is how David Foster Wallace’s writing is described:
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here–with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work–essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like “The Depressed Person.”
I believe I’m going to track down one of his legendary stories like “The Depressed Person.”
Podunk Meets Paradise 
Hahah this made me laugh out loud! But I am SOOOO checking that site out!
Thanks! I hope your writing is elevated to Hemingway or Faulkner status, or at the very least Dilbert.
Yeah, but she really TRIED. Well done, mom.
She did really try. Way to go to bat for HRH.
oh cwap I write like HP Lovecraft!! And it was a policy paper!
HP Lovecraft is not a known quantity to Podunk, so I looked up this: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (/ˈlʌvkræft, -ˌkrɑːft/;[1] August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)—known as H. P. Lovecraft—was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
My love for Lynn deepens by the day.
Dan Brown (formerly writing as Danielle Brown) also wrote “187 Men to Avoid, A survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman” which is, I’m guessing, in your style!
First, good trivia about Danielle Brown. Second, I would get romantically frustrated if there were 187 men and I was trying to avoid all of them.
I think the system has a crush on Wallace. I pasted in the only thing I had handy — a press release I sent out this morning — and apparently it is also as brilliant and original as he.
I wrote a blog post like Mario Puzo (with less blood) and a technical document like Rudyard Kipling. I suspect a random number generator is involved.
So you don’t think REAL computer gremlins are analyzing our writing? Sad.