Not sure I believe this, but....

[la_marquise]

I write like
Neil Gaiman

I Write Like. Analyze your writing!

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Cor!

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I think it's largely vocabulary-driven. Two different sections of the same text caused it to claim I wrote like Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace; its response to another was to claim I was like Arthur C Clarke. The latter was notes about an SF RPG with lots of stuff about moons and aliens, hence my impression about vocabulary.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, it is: I tried it with some non-fiction and got something completely different.

[jen-qoe.livejournal.com]

Actually I'd say you were better. :-)

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. Gaiman is less work to read, but the payoff from your work is much bigger.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

You are much too kind.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

No, you are far better.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That is very kind.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Not kind. True. (Though millions of his fans I know would disagree, I have never been able to finish one of his books, they are predictable, the ideas parched, and I'm just indifferent. Some even seem familiar, like much-borrowed ideas, not much added.)

Your prose scintillates, and your books make one think as well as feel and experience.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am now very embarrassed.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Don;t be--strut!

(I did like Sandman, and the one he wrote with Pratchett, but I think he went downhill from there.)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, in the sense that you both write in English....

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

These things are such nonsense- I've posted various of my poems over time and got half a dozen different answers.

I know what influences my poetry and it's none of the writers they always seem keen to mention some of whom I don't even know.

Bah!

I'm tempted by athenais's comment to post one of my poems in French. That'd fox it! :o)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's all down to vocabulary choices, I think. French would be interesting (I'd guess Anne Rice, because she uses some French words.)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

By way of experiment, I put in, in the original Middle French, a selection from Christine de Pizan's: 'Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc' and she writes like Valdimir Nabokov.

Who knew? :o)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

C'est bien bizarre, ca!

[anef.livejournal.com]

I on the other hand write like Charles Dickens or Margaret Atwood. Hey, ho.

[doubtingmichael.livejournal.com]

Well, I got Stephen King and then J K Rowling. I think I should stop there.

[doubtingmichael.livejournal.com]

But apparently that post was in the style of James Joyce.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you write like your own lovely self, not some shadow of another author. I do think these quizzes are a bit silly...

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

I understand that this thing is a scam intended to sell various dodgy things.

I was told that I write like Douglas Adams.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Dodgy things like writing courses according to the advertising spiel............

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

If I already wrote like Douglas Adams I would feel no need for a writing course, so it's dodgy as effective marketing too.