Comments on: I write like… a bunch of sci-fi authors? https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: I Write Like • La Canta Magnifico Blog https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22752 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:02:31 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22752 […] browsing the internet, I found a fun tool via Ballastexistenz called I Write Like. The idea is that you paste some of your writing into its box and it analyses […]

]]> By: Justthisguy https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22751 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:25:06 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22751 Ma’am, I think this is one way in which you are quite normal, whatever that means. I have read a few blog-posts by people who have tried this test, and as far as I can recall, the reaction of every one of them was, WTF?.

I don’t think anybody who has tried the test thinks that it showed an accurate representaion of his or her writing style.

]]> By: LittleRaven https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22750 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:26:50 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22750 I too got HP Lovecraf, after inputting one post. I assumed it was because of the length of my post and the punctuation.

]]> By: constantin alexandrakis https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22749 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:01:50 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22749 I mostly found the best sci-fi ( sci-fi that i like) in books like “city of quartz ” by Mike Davis, which is just an (very precise) history of L.A and has only humans for monsters.

(Talking about cities, Las Vegas is so sci-fi that it become almost a parodie of sci-fi, but the parodie of sci-fi is sci-fi too, so…)
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]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22748 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:43:28 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22748 I’ve been feeling like things are sci-fi lately too. But I wasn’t sure whether that was because they really are, or because I’m turning 30 in a society where technology is has been advancing my whole life. (Which I doubt will continue forever, given what has happened to it in the past.) I tend to view sci-fi as a pretty varied thing, not just traditional or ‘hard’ sci-fi.

]]> By: constantin alexandrakis https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22747 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:42:43 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22747 about scary things and sci-fi in DFW :

i discovered first a ” A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again “, which happen to be very well translated in french. That is the funny part of the guy, some kind of a very clever friend who talk in a very generous way, fluid and bright ( even though he seems to be very keen on details and add huge and weird footnotes (hilarious most of the time) to his texts) .

Then i read “brief interviews with hideous men” ( also very well translated in f.) and that is pretty cold – very dry style sometimes. The scary part.

To me the scary part is sort of related to J.G Ballard’s strange and scary sci-fi short stories ( which happen to be very etc.).

It’s just that dfw doesn’t seems to be a pure sci-fi writer, he’s not in the genre exactly.

I guess that is because we all live in a kind of sci-fi world now. You don’t have to project stuff in the future to talk about a scary reality.

]]> By: urocyon https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22746 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:16:20 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22746 (I’m not as much saying it’s accurate, as just that it’s weird that all these people I know are getting the same authors regardless of who the authors are.)

*nods* I found it interesting, too. Especially since I don’t notice that much similarity between the use of commas, sentence length, etc. that it’s supposed to be analyzing. Odd.

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22745 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:52:15 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22745 Most things I read say 50 authors, although the guy who did it has been adding things supposedly. As I said, looking around I’ve seen some Lovecraft and Wallace, but not with anything near the consistency I’m getting out of the writers I’ve been checking. I’ve noticed though that whenever several people get the same writer, they put it down to the limited author pool. (I’m not as much saying it’s accurate, as just that it’s weird that all these people I know are getting the same authors regardless of who the authors are.)

]]> By: Jemima Aslana https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22744 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:49:25 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22744 If you think there’s nothing LOvecraftian about cats you clearly need to read The Cats of Ulthar by that very author. Heheh.

PS: I got ole HP as well. Which I’m cool with, ’cause I’m a huge fan of the Cthulhu Mythos – especially the derivative RPG.

]]> By: urocyon https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/i-write-like-a-bunch-of-sci-fi-authors/#comment-22743 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:13:53 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=641#comment-22743 Interesting. Plugging in some posts, I also kept getting David Foster Wallace and Lovecraft, 80% or so Wallace. (And I hope my writing is not as hard to wade through as Lovecraft’s, either.)

I am wondering how limited their pool of authors is, as well.

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