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Who do you write like, /lit/?

http://iwl.me/

Copy and paste a writing sample of yours into here and post your results.

>tfw submitting multiple samples and keep getting James Joyce

>> No.7798348
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7798348

>write something get author
>delete word, get completely different author
>delete another word, get another completely different author
>write gibberish, get joyce

>> No.7798353

>>7798348
>write gibberish, get joyce
lol, probably perfectly describes my writing tbqh

>> No.7798358

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THIS SITE

IT MEANS NOTHING

>>/lit/thread/S908466

LOOK AT THAT

2010

FUCK

>> No.7798363

>use long paragraphs of arguments I've posted on 4chan in the archives
>have it analysed
>your style resembles Joyce
Uh, yay? I guess I'm just a natural at writing.

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>>7798358
>>>/lit/thread/S908466#p908517
>First three paragraphs to Ayn Rand's Anthem got James Joyce.
Ayn Rand confirmed for english genius.

>> No.7798371

>>7798368
IT'S A WORD COUNT ANALYSIS

IT DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT STYLE

FUCK OFF

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>7798371
Are you dissing the greatest author of the 20th century?

>> No.7798376

>>7798373
YOU MEAN

JAMES JOYCE

>> No.7798392

>>7798376
Sorry, but I just put in the first paragraph of Ulysses and got Ayn Rand and she's such a terrible writer. Anyone who writes like Ayn Rand can't be the greatest author of the 20th century. So sorry.

>> No.7798394

>>7798392
WORD

ANALYSIS

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK

>> No.7798395

>>7798373
one must object to objectivism.

>> No.7798592

>>7798394
But that site is just so objective.

>> No.7798619

>You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherfucker. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger! Oooo! Ooo... All right, ya see? It shocks you, it shocks you, to see what's buried beneath, you stupid mother fuckers!
>Mark Twain

>> No.7798817

>>7798344
>Copy/Paste Petrarca's poetry
>"YOU WRITE LIKE JAMES JOYCE!!!"

>> No.7798841
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7798841

This was a post of mine from the recent Baudrillard thread.

>> No.7798847

Says I write like noted hack Lovecraft. Considering all the samples I used were as deliberately overwrought and pretentious as I could make them (including Latin translations of meme phrases like "wake me up inside")... :)

>> No.7798899

>Nabokov
Good

>> No.7798919

>go on /lit/
>the billionth "what do you write like thread"
>literally the billionth
>no idiot posting in these threads has realized that the results are pretty much random
>come back tomorrow
>the billionth and one "what do you write like" thread
>eternal september is real

>> No.7798957

>>7798919
*rolls eyes condescendingly* You must be great at parties dude... </sarcasm!>

>> No.7798977

>>7798344
I got HP Lovecraft for a foucauldian discourse of the musical Show Boat.

What does this mean?

>> No.7798979

>>7798977
discourse analysis*
oy vey

>> No.7798980

>>7798977
Absolutely nothing, the site gave you a random author

>> No.7798986

>>7798980
3 of my essays have all come up lovecraft
I know I don't write like him, but what is this characteristic it keeps noting?

How often I use and or some shit?

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jej

if you copy-paste "JAMES JOYCE" over and over again you get Robert Louis Stevenson