I just saw a link to a webpage that allows you to cut-and-paste something you wrote into a text box. Using some sort of computer voodoo, the website then determines what famous writer you write like.
So I decided I should test this out. I took the first chapter of Failstate, my debut, soon-to-be-published novel, and this is what I got:
Huh. I've never read Chuck, but I have heard of him.
So I decided to see if this would vary at all if I submitted text from a different story. So I dusted off the first chapter of Numb, my Christian space opera/espionage thriller. And this is what I got from that:
Um, wow.
So you tell me? Good thing that my style varied so much between two books? Or evidence of a lack of consistent voice on my part?
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I used the website several weeks ago, but I wasn't sure how accurate it is. I kept getting "Stephen King." For fun I tried pasting some news articles, which all turned up with James Joyce. Go figure.
So I'm still not sure whether to trust the website or not.
John, I think the different results are probably because you use different voices for each POV character.
Phil, as a journalist I find your results with news stories amusing. Because I'm pretty sure J Joyce isn't the tone most of us aim for. ;)
Yeah, I should have mentioned this before, but I took the news articles from Yahoo.com. I think it's actually fairly fitting, too.
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