Summer is here, I’m working on my new WIP and as
I was going through my bookmarked creative websites, I came across this one
called “I Write Like”. If you copy and paste a
writing sample of your work, it analyzes the style and compares it to a famous
writer. Of course it’s just for fun. The one thing I noticed is I needed to use
more than one paragraph to get a good comparison, so I put in an entire page of
my books. What’s interesting is that I write like a few authors, and on top of
that, there’s a connection between the two of them.
I
plugged in the first chapter of my dark, psychological suspense Net Switch, and it seems my writing is
comparable to
When
I plugged in the first page of my new novel, Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Sarcasm (working title), it states that I write
like
For
those who don’t know, Bram Stoker is known for his 1897 novel Dracula, and Chuck Palahniuk is known
for his 1996 novel Fight Club. I don’t
know much about either one of these authors. Horror isn’t my genre, so I never
read Dracula. I’ve also never read a story by Chuck Palahniuk. I find it
intriguing that my writing style (yes it’s just for fun) is comparable to two
authors I haven't read and a genre I don’t write in.
I
went online to see if there are any similarities between Stoker and Palahniuk. It
seems there is a Bram
Stoker Award given for excellent achievement in horror writing. Chuck
Palahniuk was nominated twice for this award—the first for Lullaby in 2002 and then Haunted
in 2005.
Even
though I did this only for entertainment value, I learned a little about the
writers I Write Like.
Who
do you write like?
Style
and Fame,
Bea
