An interesting site. “iateyourparents” posted this on google buzz, so all credit to him. It analyzes your writing, and tells you which famous writer your style mostly resembles.
First time through, I wrote some nonsense about a man in black watching the world ignore his warnings and die. It said I wrote like Dan Brown. This has ruined both Stephen Kings’ “Dark Tower” book series and Black Sabbath’s song “Iron Man” for me for life…
Second time, I copy+pasted my “FAT DAN’s Thoughts On: Heavy Rain” rant, and got:
I find this acceptable.
Hmmm… Third time through, took Jack’s “book” from The Shining (ie. copy pasted “All work and now play make Jack a dull boy.” a bunch of times) and got “P.G. Wodehouse”. So… not sure of the accuracy of this thing. Here is what I found under “writing style” for Sir P.G. Wodehouse’s wiki entry:
Wodehouse took a modest attitude to his own works. In Over Seventy (1957) he wrote:
“I go in for what is known in the trade as ‘light writing’ and those who do that – humorists they are sometimes called – are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.”
However, he also lightly taunted his critics, as in the introduction to Summer Lightning.
“A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained ‘all the old Wodehouse characters under different names’. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
His writing style is notable for its unique blend of contemporary London clubroom slang with elegant, classically-informed drawing-room English. As in: “I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.”