Interesting...

[donutsweeper]

Hmmmm... So I tried plugging various of my stories into the "I write like" statistical analysis tool (which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers) to see who I wrote like. I tried a TON different stories. And got a number of different results:
L. Frank Baum
Bram Stoker
Douglas Adams
P. G. Wodehouse
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Vladimir Nabokov (interestingly nearly all my NCIS noncrossovers were akin to his style)
Steven King (a few drabbles)
Robert Louis Stevenson
J. K. Rowling (my two winne-the-pooh stories)
Mark Twain
Ian Fleming
J. D. Salinger
Raymond Chandler
James Joyce
Jack London
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Dickens

I always said I was a diverse writer, but still....

Comments

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

I got Chuck Palahniuk. (I only tried once, and it wasn't a story, just some rambling.) I don't even know who that is.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Apparently he's the author of "Fight Club" things you learn

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I got Chuck whatsit once too!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Did you get a lot of different authors?

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I kind of gave up or I might have had as much variety. The interesting thing was that I only once got a woman - Margaret Atwood. I also got a slew of 'classic' authors - Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse and Mark Twain are the 3 I can remember.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I didn't start keeping track of who I was getting right away but I don't think I ever got a woman. *except JK Rowling*

It's interesting although probably useless.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Bwah! I put in a few paragraphs of restraint and got James Joyce.

IDEK. Sentence length is the only connection I can think of.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm assuming sentence length and maybe how complicated your words are (how many syllables or something)

[hllangel]

I've plugged in a few of my most recent fics, and come out with:

Dan Brown
James Joyce
Stephen King

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

When I plugged in a nonfic post I got Dan Brown. It's interesting, but who it claims you write like seems kind of random, doesn't it?

[hllangel]

I plugged in two more and got:

Harry Harrison and
Douglas Adams.

I think I"ll leave it at that.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*hee* probably for the best

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I only tried twice - my recent fluffy Owen/creature story got J.K. Rowling, and an earlier collection of ficlets (ones with the Master, Leela and Alice/Emily) got Lewis Carroll! There wasn't much of nonsense or strange fantasy I can think of in that collection, so the only connection I can think of is that one of the characters was named Alice. Heh.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous you got Lewis Carroll!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

It's quite mimsy! *g*

I tried again and got Leo Tolstoy (with a Donna Noble story) and L. Frank Baum (with my story Six Conversations with Crow, the only one that really makes sense as I deliberately wrote it in a fable style).

Huh. I'm in uffish thought now.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, Tolstoy! I'm beginning to think it's just randomly assigning things