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Who do you write like?........the new sj.com parlour game

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JR, Jul 16, 2010.

  1. CA_journo

    CA_journo Member

    Stephen King

    Then I put in part of a Stephen King short story, and got Chuck Palahniuk.
     
  2. Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell

    Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell Active Member

    I got Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, James Joyce, and J.D. Salinger
     
  3. Precious Roy

    Precious Roy Active Member

    The story I wrote last night gave me Palahniuk. Seeing as though he's my favorite author ever, that was quite the honor and quite weird.
    Everything else I wrote was Wallace, I think that anything with a lot of quotes produces him.
    Everything else I write is Palahniuk, so that's pretty neat.
     
  4. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Wasn't David Foster Wallace in the 70s band Bread?

    My Robert E. Lee Fever Dream is DFW, so is one of my work blog entries. Mysterious ...

    ... so I decided to copy-and-page an excerpt from William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, the one about a man teaching his asshole how to talk, and I got ...

    David Foster Wallace.

    Fail.
     
  5. wheateater

    wheateater Member

    Hmm ... Bill Simmons and Mitch Albom!?
     
  6. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member

    Arthur C. Clarke.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    According to the site, Dan Brown doesn't write like Dan Brown, but like Stephen King. King doesn't write like King, but writes like Vladimir Nabokov.
     
  8. CR19

    CR19 Member

    I have finally met David Foster Wallace. There may be an issue with how he writes, though.

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  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I put this in:

    "Fnord

    Estoy usando el Internet!!11!!111

    I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I do not feel ashamed."

    Which means I write like James Joyce.
     
  10. Precious Roy

    Precious Roy Active Member

    Read an AP story today that it's about key words, not punctuation like I thought it would be. Interesting to say the least, even if it's stupid.
     
  11. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I typed in "eskimo" nine times hoping I'd get Wyonna Rider or BYH.

    I got J.D. Salinger instead.
     
  12. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You may hope for Wynona Rider but you hit like Wynonna Judd.
     
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