tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post96561821194180882..comments2024-01-10T19:34:23.767-07:00Comments on That Rebel with a Blog: WHOM Do You Write Like?Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-65786826677284088972010-07-14T21:32:57.472-06:002010-07-14T21:32:57.472-06:00LOVED it! I did a blog post and it came out as Ch...LOVED it! I did a blog post and it came out as Chuck P (thank you for telling me who he was...) Then I did the first page or two of my WIP and it came back as Ian Fleming. <br /><br />Too much fun...<br /><br />So did anyone type in a bit of Stephen King and see what the comparison was?Vicki Rochohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381089434014961076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-3063113553907080472010-07-14T20:03:41.053-06:002010-07-14T20:03:41.053-06:00Okay, I had to play some more. I pasted in differe...Okay, I had to play some more. I pasted in different passages from my ms, one for each different character and each one came up with a different author. Which is probably a good thing, yes? Doesn't that mean they don't all sound like the same person? Yes. Yes, it does. Yeehaa!<br /><br />My mc is Stephen King, repeatedly. Her mother, Margaret Mitchell (woohoo! I like that one!!). Her Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-11885257350377986872010-07-14T19:14:30.107-06:002010-07-14T19:14:30.107-06:00Okay, I just now entered a passage from the Bible ...Okay, I just now entered a passage from the Bible Book of Jonah, NIV translation, and it came up as Kurt Vonnegut. But then I entered a passage from <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> and it correctly came up as Mark Twain. <br />I'm keeping this site.<br /><br />Lee<br /><a href="http://tossingitout.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Tossing It Out</a>Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-1310469923289770262010-07-14T19:09:04.678-06:002010-07-14T19:09:04.678-06:00« "He gave it to my husband and me" is a...« "He gave it to my husband and me" is also correct. Not "..to my husband and I."<br /><br />I hear it all the time, on TV and in print. Drives me crazy. »<br /><br />Back when I was a kid, people tended to err in the other direction, as in "Steve and me (or, horrors, Me and Steve) went to the store" so I believe that mistake was focused on to such an extent that it Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508114700180229059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-73519496260926478882010-07-14T18:54:03.779-06:002010-07-14T18:54:03.779-06:00Interesting site--thanks for sharing. I gave it t...Interesting site--thanks for sharing. I gave it three samples. The first two said I wrote like David Foster Wallace. Had to Google the name and after doing so I do recall reading an article about him recently and he seems to be highly respected--and dead. I don't mind being compared to him even though I'm not familiar with his work. <br />The third time I entered a sample of a flash Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-79998839067624916552010-07-14T16:21:26.847-06:002010-07-14T16:21:26.847-06:00Oh my gosh, I've pasted in several excerpts of...Oh my gosh, I've pasted in several excerpts of my blog posts and poetry and got: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and, my fav, JRR Tolkien! I thought maybe it analyzed key words or sentence structure, but the ones I thought would come up Poe or King, came up as Dickens...curious. And, thanks for my new toy...I'll probably play on this site tillThe Words Crafterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520267901489487512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-79931198022473668952010-07-14T16:05:39.281-06:002010-07-14T16:05:39.281-06:00Roland, I'm such a geek I looked up Bizarro ju...Roland, I'm such a geek I looked up Bizarro just to make sure there wasn't one! :) Christine H. has some theories about how it's done, check out her blog, The Writer's Hole.<br /><br />Christine, thanks!<br /><br />Francine, hey there! You have an awesome blog, my pleasure. And congrats on your published novels, I'll have to get back over your way and check them out soon. You Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-67691923013371605962010-07-14T15:59:46.494-06:002010-07-14T15:59:46.494-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-74212337544421755742010-07-14T15:59:46.495-06:002010-07-14T15:59:46.495-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-24151485025863909792010-07-14T13:04:17.254-06:002010-07-14T13:04:17.254-06:00This is a really fun thing to do, but like others,...This is a really fun thing to do, but like others, I'd love to know how the analysis works. I write like Stephen King, but when I put in some Stephen King text, it says he writes like Ian Fleming. LOL.<br /><br />Oh, and I am so glad I'm not the only one who didn't recognize Chuck Palahnuik's name!VR Barkowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04927993233682731113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-75753638752978496472010-07-14T12:57:15.789-06:002010-07-14T12:57:15.789-06:00Hi,
First off thanks for dropping by my blog and ...Hi,<br /><br />First off thanks for dropping by my blog and for pressing the friend button!<br /><br />Okay, so I write like James Joyce and Virgina Woolf as far as historical excerpts go.<br /><br />As for modern romance excerpts I picked up Chuck Palahnuik (he of "Fight Club" fame and Joanna Trollope! Great surname that for sexy romances. ;)<br /><br />bestFrancine Howarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02326542867876257042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-9160735333557465252010-07-14T10:51:28.485-06:002010-07-14T10:51:28.485-06:00If "who" is the subject of the sentence....If "who" is the subject of the sentence..."Who is there?" then it is correct. But if it is the object of a verb or preposition, then it should be "whom". "Whom do you like?" (whom is the object of the verb like, the subject of the sentence is "you").<br /><br />My other pet peeve is misusing "I" and "me." I is the subject, meNighfalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745824744507928211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-51009723736515235152010-07-14T09:58:44.313-06:002010-07-14T09:58:44.313-06:00Like you, Olivia, it first told me I wrote like St...Like you, Olivia, it first told me I wrote like Stephen King, then like Dan Brown. I stopped lest it tell me I write like Bizarro.<br /><br />How does it come up with its results I wonder. RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-27908411390364160582010-07-14T08:47:45.091-06:002010-07-14T08:47:45.091-06:00Piedmont, who did you come up with? Oh wait, WHOM?...Piedmont, who did you come up with? Oh wait, WHOM??<br /><br />Christine, I never can get that right, sheesh. I'll go fix it. :)<br /><br />Ooo, you got James Joyce and James Fenimore Cooper, how cool is that? Margaret Atwood tweeted that she apparently writes like Stephen King...or was that someone else. Anyway, it told her she wrote like someone other than herself! Too funny.<br /><br />Olivia J. Herrell, writing as O.J. Barréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107021392937169669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-56434677645235209132010-07-14T08:12:26.866-06:002010-07-14T08:12:26.866-06:00This is a fun site! Apparently on my blog I write ...This is a fun site! Apparently on my blog I write like Margaret Atwood & in my MS I write like Stephen King. Fun stuff :)Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-80170293219842633852010-07-14T06:59:35.824-06:002010-07-14T06:59:35.824-06:00OMG! I write like James Joyce.
I guess I'm go...OMG! I write like James Joyce.<br /><br />I guess I'm going to go have to read one of his books now. I've actually always wanted to read "Ulysses." I have a vacation coming up so I guess I'll take it along.<br /><br />Thank you for this very, very cool tool!<br /><br />As a statistician, I am very curious how this works.<br /><br />I tried different passages from my novel Nighfalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745824744507928211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-87293658215521607802010-07-14T06:50:56.871-06:002010-07-14T06:50:56.871-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nighfalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745824744507928211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-31964911850470049352010-07-14T06:45:02.335-06:002010-07-14T06:45:02.335-06:00OMG! Whom, not who, whom! Whom do you write like?...OMG! Whom, not who, whom! Whom do you write like? You write like whom?<br /><br />Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I'm okay now, really.<br /> <br />Sorry.Nighfalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745824744507928211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847195321533568990.post-21378441671661084382010-07-14T06:24:17.269-06:002010-07-14T06:24:17.269-06:00What a totally cool thing to do. And I'm goin...What a totally cool thing to do. And I'm going to do it right now!Anne Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05816355522284492131noreply@blogger.com