“I Write Like” is a fun site where you paste in some of your writing, it does some sort of comparison against a database of famous writers, and tells you who you write like. I can’t tell what it’s looking for … and it doesn’t seem very accurate. (For instance, it told Margaret Atwood she writes like Stephen King.) But it sure is entertaining.
I went a little nutso with it and put in several different types of my writing. What I got back:
My essay writing is like … Chuck Palahniuk
My fiction writing is like … Stephen King
My correspondence is like … Stephen King
My blog post writing is like … Kurt Vonnegut
Conclusion: Stephen King is an awesome writer? Margaret Atwood and I write a lot a like?
Note: I got all meta and put this post in (every part of it before “Note”) and got Vonnegut again. So perhaps while I am inconsistent in my writing tone and style overall, my blogging is distinctly Vonnegutesque. Vonnegutian?