The 'I-write-like' meme

[jacey]

Charlie Allery, this is your fault:

Apparently, using a chunk from my children's book in progress:

This is not altogether displeasing - though I would have been happier with Diana Wynne Jones - however when I punched in a chunk of my alt.history fantasy the result I got was:

So I tried a third piece, science fiction this time, and got:

...which is ever-so-slightly worrying. So I punched in another bit from the same piece and got:

Now that's scary. I think this novel is toast!

So I tried my alt-history Polish novel and this time the result was a little more encouraging.

However just to check consistency I punched in another bit of the same novel and got:

So I think I'd better stop there.

Except... I got an email the other day that was obviously written by someone who was virtually illiterate, so I put that in and...

Sorry, Cory. I am absolutely sure you know the difference between there, they're and their and would be unlikely to use any of them in the same way as my correspondent.

Comments

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's disturbing. I'm glad I stopped with a result I liked. But has to be a win to get a chidren's author for a children's book! :)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes - at least I'm aiming at the same age group as early Harry POtter.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I write like me- but that may be because I write nonfic!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Writing like me would, of course, be the ideal. You're a history specialist, yes? Is there a link to your books somewhere?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I am indeed.

Most of what I write fetches up university journals and the like. I'm in mid write on my first full length book- a study of Prince Rupert of the Rhine Palatinate (not to mention his dog! :o) Trouble is, writing for others keeps getting in the way.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I got James Joyce on my current WIP... That had me baffled, I can tell you!