HYPERBOREA / I Write Like...

**Posted by Blackadder23** 8/25/2014 2:32 pm

I thought this was a pretty cool site.

http://iwl.me/

Most of my forum posts come back as "George Orwell", although the shorter, nastier ones tend to come back as "Dan Brown" (which serves me right). I entered the session reports from my Black Fief campaign and got variously "Rudyard Kipling", "James Fenimore Cooper", "Bram Stoker", and "Jonathan Swift". Nice!

Copy a few paragraphs of your writing and see who you write like!

EDIT: When I tested this post, it came back "H.P. Lovecraft"!

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**Posted by Handy Haversack** 8/25/2014 3:36 pm

I pasted in two different chunks of my campaing write-up and got Arthur Clarke and David Foster Wallace! I need to sit down for a sec ...

**Posted by Chainsaw** 8/25/2014 8:58 pm

Gertrude Stein, ahaha!

**Posted by lige** 8/25/2014 9:54 pm

I've been hitting that sweet spot between HP Lovecraft and JRR Tolkien with various campaign writings (with a Dan Brown and Mario Puzo on a few dryer pieces of text). Must be all those 10 dollar words.

**Posted by DMPrata** 8/26/2014 6:43 am

I got two Lovecrafts and one Mark Twain.

**Posted by Blackadder23** 8/26/2014 9:27 am

Aw man, I wanted Mark Twain.

Oh well, at least the manuscript for Beneath the Comet came back as "Edgar Allan Poe".

**Posted by Ghul** 8/26/2014 10:36 am

Danielle Steele

I kid, I kid. I got Poe, too. ;)

**Posted by Chainsaw** 8/26/2014 10:42 am

Ghul wrote:
Danielle Steele

I kid, I kid. I got Poe, too. ;)

Hahaah! Nice.

When I used my work writing (securities recommendations), rather than a random forum post, I got Arthur Clarke.

**Posted by chrisj** 8/26/2014 11:03 am

I got David Foster Wallace.

**Posted by Yora** 8/26/2014 1:42 pm

Fun idea, but pretty pointless if it shows a completely different result for any sample I enter.

**Posted by Blackadder23** 8/26/2014 1:54 pm

Yora wrote:
Fun idea, but pretty pointless if it shows a completely different result for any sample I enter.

Maybe you just have a wide range.

I think it helps to enter longer samples (as in, several paragraphs or a couple of pages). When you enter a short sample, the result is probably less reliable. It's definitely not completely random; if you enter the same sample more than once you do get the same result. Anyway, I don't think it's meant to be "scientific" - it's just for fun.

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**Posted by Handy Haversack** 8/26/2014 3:22 pm

I got "Living Letters of Pure Will Growing on the Scripted Throat of the Beast That Grows in Blindness." So we know it works!

**Posted by chrisj** 8/27/2014 6:51 am

Since learning that I write like the late David Foster Wallace, I decided to quit my job and wait for the book deals to come rolling in. So far nothing. Maybe literary agents don't read game blogs?

**Posted by Blackadder23** 8/27/2014 1:45 pm

chrisj wrote:
Since learning that I write like the late David Foster Wallace, I decided to quit my job and wait for the book deals to come rolling in. So far nothing. Maybe literary agents don't read game blogs?

Sad but true.

**Posted by joseph** 8/28/2014 7:29 am

So, I entered four different paragraphs from Forgotten Fane of the Coiled Goddess and got Dan Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Daniel Defoe, and (gasp!) H.P. Lovecraft.

**Posted by Blackadder23** 8/28/2014 7:46 am

joseph wrote:
So, I entered four different paragraphs from Forgotten Fane of the Coiled Goddess and got Dan Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Daniel Defoe, and (gasp!) H.P. Lovecraft.

Awesome!

Try putting in the whole manuscript. Let's see if people are in for a Poe-splosion.

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**Posted by francisca** 8/28/2014 9:35 am

I got:
Mario Puzo
Jonathan Swift
J.R.R. Tolkien

all from 3 different sections of the same document. This is fitting, as each were written with different purposes in mind.

**Posted by francisca** 8/28/2014 9:46 am

A selection from G1 yields Arthur C. Clarke, for Gary.

**Posted by Rastus_Burne** 1/19/2015 5:58 am

H.P Lovecraft, Agathie Cristie & Cory Doctorow.