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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Me? A Literary Genius? Who Knew?

You are right now on the cutting edge of fame...really. You could be a famous writer and just not know it. I wouldn't have known it, either, except for Dimitry Chestnykh.
This 27-year old Russian software developer has come up with a program that analyzes a person's writing style then compares it with that of other more famous authors to decipher whose style most corresponds to the sample. This program has been available for only a few days, and already it has been accessed more than 1.5 million times as people attempt to see what famous writer they may be channelling.
For fun, someone at CNN decided to enter public documents of famous people to find out the correlation between their writing style and that of famous authors. Here's a sample of who the following famous people write like:

Barack Obama: Steven King (or at least his speechwriter does).
Kim Kardashian: James Joyce ( I never knew Kardashian could even write)
Edgar A. Poe's The Raven: H.G. Wells
Justin Bieber's lyrics sounded an awful lot like Steven King as well which makes me wonder just how many famous writers are in the database.
go ahead and try it. It's easy: simply submit a writing sample and hit the "analyze" button at the bottom. Within minutes, the analysis is complete, and you can find out whether or not to contemplate that writing career.

Here's the URL: http//www.iwl.me

As for me, the blog of a couple of days ago was written in the style of...
Dan Brown.
I'm sure he'd be thrilled to know that!
Let me know how yours comes out.

1 Comments:

At 12:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I write like David Foster Wallace. I'm going to go google him now.

 

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