Who do you write like?

[Jaqen H'ghar]

Hmm...*goes to see who he writes like*

I got either Douglas Adams or Dan Brown for every one of my profiles I entered. I can dig it...

 

[Kaeb]

Woo.

MOTHER****IN NEIL GAIMAN.

I've read all of his books, **** yeah.

 

[Green Ranger]

For my write-up of Praegara in the Divine RP I got J.K. Rowling.

For all my posts in 'While the City Sleeps' together, I got Dan Brown.

I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

 

[Green Ranger]

For my write-up of Praegara in the Divine RP I got J.K. Rowling.

For all my posts in 'While the City Sleeps' together, I got Dan Brown.

I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

 

[Sovereign]

For my write-up of Praegara in the Divine RP I got J.K. Rowling.

For all my posts in 'While the City Sleeps' together, I got Dan Brown.

I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

Obviously it's telling you to stop writing.

 

[Johnnysaurus Rex]

For my write-up of Praegara in the Divine RP I got J.K. Rowling.

For all my posts in 'While the City Sleeps' together, I got Dan Brown.

I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

At least it wasn't Karen Traviss?

For Archeur Rexus' profile I got Charles Dickens.

For my longest profile (Alsakan Major Devaun Vance) I got James Joyce.

 

[Ser Gregor]

I posted each and every one of my posts from Tales from the ER in sequential order, and got Arthur C. Clarke.

I had to look him up. Apparently he had some fairly good scifi ideas, though I've never read him so I have no clue as to the actual quality of his writing.

I wonder if the interruption inherent in pasting only your part of an RP skewed the result.

You had to look up Arthur C. ****ing Clarke?

Hmm...*goes to see who he writes like*

I got either Douglas Adams or Dan Brown for every one of my profiles I entered. I can dig it...

I wouldn't. Dan Brown is a horrible writer.

 

[Nameless]

My older work got Chuck Palahniuk, but my more recent stuff got David Foster Wallace.

Honestly, I don't see either.

 

[Logan_E]

Apparently I write like David Foster Wallace. Never heard of him...looked him up, never read any of his stuff or anything. Right now I am also rusty so it could change I guess? Hahaha.

 

[Andreus Makaryk]

You had to look up Arthur C. ****ing Clarke?

I suppose I get -1 internetz for my honesty in actually admitting that I didn't know something over the internetz. I think that's a deadly sin or something.

And I'm horrible with names.

My newest RP returned Jack London. Meh.

 

[Sovereign]

I suppose I get -1 internetz for my honesty in actually admitting that I didn't know something over the internetz. I think that's a deadly sin or something.

And I'm horrible with names.

My newest RP returned Jack London. Meh.

Arthur C. Clark is one of the greatest sci-fi writers that ever lived. Of course you're going to get flak for telling people you don't know who he is on a Star Wars board.

 

[Andreus Makaryk]

Arthur C. Clark is one of the greatest sci-fi writers that ever lived. Of course you're going to get flak for telling people you don't know who he is on a Star Wars board.

I think I'm too young to have really encountered him, honestly.

I haven't read much sci-fi other than Star Wars, Halo, and some of the books derived from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (the latter are extremely difficult to find). Arthur C. Clark came well before any of these, and it's not like sci-fi is remotely taught in most lit classes. Not even in college (unless you are fortunate enough to be offered a sci-fi specific literary course).

I spend more time reading historical and technical stuff than I do reading actual sci-fi.

 

[Jake]

Weird, I found this last night too. I put about 6 different pieces in and IIRC I got:

Stephen King
Dan Brown
Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Adams
Isaac Asimov

I'm pretty certain it bases its guesses off word choice and sentence structure, hence why so many of us are getting sci-fi writers. I got Arthur C. Clarke twice without any sci-fi at all, though, so meh. I dislike James Joyce's writing.

EDIT: Arthur C. Clarke is the mastermind behind 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside Kubrick. I read 2001 and it remains one of my all-time favorites. Also, I just did it another few times and got Chuck Palahniuk and Jack London.

EDIT2: You guys suck. : ( Dan Brown gets a lot of flak. Yes, his writing reads very much like an editorial and that is never good, but his plots are intricate and IMO fascinating.

I can respect people disliking him for it but calling him a terrible writer isn't okay just because he was so overhyped with the Da Vinci Code (and yes, I know a lot of the information in it wasn't factual, but from a fantasy standpoint the plot is still good).

Sidenote: They say Chuck Palahniuk is the Dan Brown of noir literature, and AFAIK he's not very noir at all. I might call Ulysses noir or James Joyce in general.

 

[Snuffalupagus]

I got Harry Harrison. That sounds like a nickname someone would give to their balls.

 

[Wing]

Ernest Hemingway

Used a short story that I had written for English back in Grade 10.