I write like…

I Write Like has become somewhat of a phenomenon in its short life (less than a month* at time of my writing this!) It already has a Wikipedia page. Like other curious people, I gave it a go this week. I cut and pasted three extracts from my manuscript to see what results I’d get. The Jack London extract was for a scene taking place in a forest. The David Foster Wallace extract was for a love scene between two characters I’ve always rather liked because it reads well and came together easily. The H. P. Lovecraft extract was for a death scene.

What does this all mean? If you look on the Wikipedia page, you’ll see some examples of famous, well-respected writers being compared to other famous, well-respected writers. Is it too bound by the nature of its analytics to be anything more than a nice procrastinator? Can it really teach us anything? I’m not sure.

But it was a little bit of fun.

*Updated: I thought it was later in the month than it actually is! So its been live less than two weeks!