I'm not sure if anyone has heard -- though I've certainly heard from certain outraged friends who may or may not have gotten unpleasant results -- that there is a new website out there to tell you what literary great (debatable, but to be discussed later) you write like. Well, this will hardly surprise
Now, I'm not saying she's a literary great. She's engaging and imaginative. She writes clearly (and better than me). One very notable difference between her and me is -- well, aside from the Oxford degree -- that she happens to have a great deal of money and I? Well, let's just not go there. Hopefully a job will be coming shortly.
What I am saying is that it could have been worse. My aforementioned outraged friends got Dan Brown. That's right. I send pity their way. Stephanie Meyer is also a menacing prospect. In fact, after plugging in some of my thesis and getting H.P. Lovecraft as a result, I'm beginning to wonder if their list consists of primarily sci-fi and fantasy authors. Or if that's the only thing I'm capable of producing. (Which, I will note, is not what I write. I write criticism on that stuff. It's quite different. -hem-)
So, who do you write like? Props if you can pull off Faulkner. Creepy points if you pull off Nabokov. And all honors if you actually get Hemingway. I covet your writing. If you got some unpleasant results, you can take consolation in this: after plugging in an excerpt from Hemingway's "True at First Light" and he, apparently writes like Leo Tolstoy. As it turns out, they don't know you. Or Hemingway. Everyone is misunderstood.
Case-in-point? On one instance, got James Joyce. (Oh, dear, and I was so hoping for Stephanie Meyer!)
