Pete's Log: who I write like
Entry #1693, (Books, Writing, n such)(posted when I was 31 years old.)
Miriam posted a link to I Write Like on facebook, so I decided to play with it. I had it analyze all the log entries I wrote that I have rated a 5. The results are as follows:
| Entry | Writer |
|---|---|
| 134 | James Joyce |
| 136 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 176 | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 361 | Stephen King |
| 696 | P. G. Wodehouse |
| 918 | Lewis Carroll |
| 1014 | Dan Brown |
| 1037 | William Gibson |
| 1126 | H.P. Lovecraft |
| 1134 | David Foster Wallace |
| 1161 | James Joyce |
| 1218 | Dan Brown |
| 1220 | James Joyce |
| 1250 | James Joyce |
| 1293 | David Foster Wallace |
| 1410 | David Foster Wallace |
| 1453 | David Foster Wallace |
| 1506 | Charles Dickens |
I find it interesting that there is so much variation early on, while James Joyce and David Foster Wallace are "responsible" for 7 of the 9 most recent entries. If I'm bored sometime, I could write a script to have all entries analyzed.
Also, entry 918, supposedly written like Lewis Carrol, consists solely of the text alias cwdcmd "alias precmd 'cd - ; unalias precmd'".
In this entry I apparently write like Dan Brown.