Do you write like Shakespeare? Or are you more like Mark Twain? Or Tolstoy?
If you want to get an idea, there’s a website that can compare your text to that of the great writers.
It’s fun, that’s for sure. I entered a piece of recent text, and was told it had a 15% resemblance to Mark Twain. Probably because it was (intentionally) a little old-fashioned.
Then again, I’m not really sure how accurate the results are – or how many authors they have in their database. To test the system, I tried entering the opening page of Dostoevsky’s classic ‘Crime and Punishment.’ It came out as 25% like Leo Tolstoy.
Close, but no cigar.
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This is fun! I’m going to link to it on my blog.
Lou, did you intend to have this text analysed? If so, you need to visit the site linked to above, in the post. Putting it here in the comments won’t work.
It is, however, one of the longer and more erudite, well written comments on this blog…
Do you know more sites that analyze one’s writing style aside from this and I Write Like?
Thanks!
I have just clicked the link you gave but the site doesn’t exist.
Jenn, sorry, it looks like that site is now defunct. That’s one of the problems with linking to stuff on the Internet – it can disappear without a trace.
I can recommend a slightly different site, which is http://www.editminion.com
The site has a tool that analyses your text for things like cliches, passive writing, adverbs etc. Give it a try.