Writing style
Jul. 14th, 2010 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyAfter extensive research, I have determined that most of the time,
I ran entire stories through this thing---more than two dozen, total, ranging from a couple hundred words up to 10K ("Bad Fairy"). Chuck was the dominant paradiem, although there were a few doozies in there: "Judgement Day" scored as Nabokov (Lotita?! WTF?!). "Juan Valdez, the Radical Priest and Me" got Raymond Chandler (for the interrogation room setting, maybe?). "Crystal Dawn" matched up with Jack London (I adore "The Sea Wolf", but wtf?). My White Collar fic, "Per Diem" scored as Jane-freaking-Austen and my submitted-but-not-yet-posted exchange fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_summergen supposedly resembles Mario "The Godfather" Puzo. Eh? Why?!
That's the big question. How do they analyse these things? Palahniuk and I both seem to write present tense. Are they analyzing by style or content, I have to wonder. The fact that I got a strong identification to one writer in particular is a Good Thing---it means I *do* have a discernable style. Now I just need to get my library fines ($1.40) squared away so I can check out a few of his works. I'm curious to see what, besides tense, is comparable.
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ETA: I posted this and went off to check my f'list, and found a link to this post, which has further discussion of this meme.
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I ran entire stories through this thing---more than two dozen, total, ranging from a couple hundred words up to 10K ("Bad Fairy"). Chuck was the dominant paradiem, although there were a few doozies in there: "Judgement Day" scored as Nabokov (Lotita?! WTF?!). "Juan Valdez, the Radical Priest and Me" got Raymond Chandler (for the interrogation room setting, maybe?). "Crystal Dawn" matched up with Jack London (I adore "The Sea Wolf", but wtf?). My White Collar fic, "Per Diem" scored as Jane-freaking-Austen and my submitted-but-not-yet-posted exchange fic for
spn_summergen supposedly resembles Mario "The Godfather" Puzo. Eh? Why?!That's the big question. How do they analyse these things? Palahniuk and I both seem to write present tense. Are they analyzing by style or content, I have to wonder. The fact that I got a strong identification to one writer in particular is a Good Thing---it means I *do* have a discernable style. Now I just need to get my library fines ($1.40) squared away so I can check out a few of his works. I'm curious to see what, besides tense, is comparable.
ETA: I posted this and went off to check my f'list, and found a link to this post, which has further discussion of this meme.
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