Writing style

[vanillafluffy]

After extensive research, I have determined that most of the time,

I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

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.

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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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Comments

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I find the whole thing a bit amusing and slightly mysterious. And if you do read some Palahniuk, please let me know what his discernable qualities are, because I got him for 2 of 4.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I will. I'm also amused by the analysis of "Juan Valdez". Heck, you betaed it for me---I'm really baffled about how it corresponds to Chandler. Somehow, Rosie the Queen of Corona versus Mary Astor boggles my mind.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia has CP listed as a writer of "trangressional fiction," which also made me say WTF?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgressional_fiction

Somehow, I'm not seeing this definition as fitting your works. You have some anti-heroes, but not to that extent. It's a head-scratcher for sure!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Good grief, I don't even write Wincest!

I remain convinced that they're zeroing in on the use of present tense. Comments in the linked post suggest that they're focusing on particular words, length of sentences, probably use of dialogue, although IDK.

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

I got Nabakov, James Joyce, and Stephen King. So far it seems almost everyone's response to his or her result is "huh? what?".

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I'm nonplused. But what the heck, it's not exactly rocket surgery, as a friend of mine likes to say.