/lit/ - Literature

>>9539685
Bump

>>9539685
>put in couple pages of work
>get Anne Rice
>make mental note to kill myself
>omit second half of pages so much less dialogue
>get DFW
how does this thing work?

>>9539702
Don't bump shill threads like this.

>>9539704
It sensed you wanted to kill yourself so it switched to DFW.

>>9539704
Fairly certain it just matches sentence length and word usage.

>>9539685
I got Vladimir Nobokov, which means I'm a phony.

>>9539685
Vladimir Nabokov

>>9539709
I legitimately laughed. Thanks anon.

I don't know his works too much so i can't tell...

>Dan Brown

FUCK

>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fug.
I do like Sherlock Holmes, though. It's comfy.

>>9539770

got the same, but submitted non-fiction - critical analysis - so I suspect your text must have been similar.

>>9539799
Nope. It was a high-school tier short story.

>>9539746
>>9539741
Same here. I just wrote a paragraph about the view outside my window. I guess I'm a hack, but I'll try again.

i expected cioran or houellebecq

>>9539799
followed up with an old attempt at some creative writing and got Nabokov. Poor algorithm.

>>9539809
that confirms how shitty it is >>9539816

How much are you guys submitting? It says to use just a few paragraphs.

Submitted a couple paragraphs from a collaborative high-fantasy book I'm working on with some close friends. Got Joyce, which I was going for in that section, so I'm a bit happy.

Submitted an excerpt from Melville and I got Charles Dickens.

I don't know who this guy is. Is he good, guys?

Put in an excerpt from thoreau, got John Feinmore Cooper, which isn't too far off I guess

Put in Joyce, got Joyce

Put in Steinbeck, got Vonnegut

Put in tolstoy, got tolstoy

>>9539848
Does that look like the face and glasses of someone good at writing, to you?

Worst possible result ITT?

I am not a writer but out of curiousity typed something out; Elizabeth paused, a thought she couldn't quite reach buzzed through her mind, smashing into the crystalline musings that littered her brain and outside children screamed, giddy with enthusiasm for life. The sound of their cries tired her. Having stayed inside her home for three days, barely active she wasn't able to switch herself on or off. Stuck in standby mode. Something would have to change.

>>9539685

I got DFW. Are there any legitimately bad authors one can get?

>inb4 DFW is bad

>>9539871
It looks like he writes the most derivative, dull, science fiction. But I write the most derivative, dull diary entries, so maybe I do write like him after all.

>>9539886

Never mind, I guess the answer is
yes
YES
>>9539883
>>9539848
>>9539770

>>9539883
Both of those things are really bad.

Stephen Kings writing isn't, technically, bad though. His writing just lacks any semblance of a soul and artistic talent.

>>9539886
i just copied a greentext from r9k ang go dfw too

Posted about 200 words in my own native tongue and got Mark Twain

>>9539901
What makes it really bad? I'd like to know in case I decide I'll write at some point.

>>9539913
Well, first of all, it's filled with huge grammatical errors. I'd start there first.

>>9539913
Use periods instead of commas. It was hard to follow. Your sentences don't make a lot of sense, and they run on for too long. Your first sentence has like three separate ideas going on at once.
Read more if you want to be a better writer.

>Enter three history essays
>Same result every time

:O

>mfw Joyce

disdainforplebs.flac

>>copypaste Shakespeare
>get Dickens
gay

wew

>Write like Agatha Christie

I don't know how to respond, her books get high ratings.
Is this good?

>jane austen

>>9539770
Same

Submitted some sci-fi

>>9539883
>>9539900

I don't see how the author of
>Elizabeth paused, a thought she couldn't quite reach buzzed through her mind, smashing into the crystalline musings that littered her brain and outside children screamed, giddy with enthusiasm for life. The sound of their cries tired her. Having stayed inside her home for three days, barely active she wasn't able to switch herself on or off. Stuck in standby mode. Something would have to change.

Can feel superior about anything no matter how minute

>>9539685
>https://iwl.me/

>JK Rowling
>Charles Dickens
>Poe
>RL Stevenson

This thing's fuckin busted

>put in the first few paragraphs of the Great Gatsby
>Arthur Clarke

>Raymond Chandler

never heard of him
his wiki page seems quite flattering though

>stephanie meyer

>Lovecraft
>Poe
>DFW
>Christie
I guess my writing is too paranoid

Excerpts from 5 different shorts

>Stephen King
>Anne Rice
James Joyce
>Arthur C. Clark
>James Joyce

I am flattered by the arbitrary internet short story honeypot. Have never read Joyce

>>9540877
kek

>Jane Austen
>DFW
>Orwell
>Isaac Asimov

I'm the winner. You guys all lost.

>Leo Tolstoy
theres some newfound confidence, although I realize this program is bullshit

God dammit, I couldn't get someone good like JK Rowling, or DFW?

I got
>Agatha Christie
>Daniel Defoe
>Ann Reice

what does this mean

>>9540912
Not really, there's an entire field of study that is focused on determining writing styles

I got Agatha Christie and Ann Reice

Cool I guess

>>9541203
me too dude, what the fuck... I never read either of them in my LIFE.

Try this one on for size: https://personality-insights-livedemo.mybluemix.net/

Navigate to:
>Body of Text>Your own text

>>9541215
this steals your work and self-publishes it to Amazon.

>>9541217
LOL sure

I don't even know how to write

Got charles dickens

>run a short story
Anne Rice

>run my notes on binary heaps
David Foster Wallace

Really makes me think.

>>9541221
it took my work, and is making MILLIONS off of my craft. DONT do it.

i put in a diary entry, part of a memoir, and part of a short story. i got Stephen King every time. at least i'm consistent. maybe it means i'll be rich and famous one day, r-right?

>>9539685
I know very little about this man. Good thing? Bad thing?

>>9541215
how many words do i need to put in before it stops saying "weak analysis?"

Put in a page from my diary (not even memeing) and got Arthur C Clarke. I don't care for writing but I guess it's nice to know that I'm living a horror story.

>>9539709
Almost choked on my food.

I put in a Bolaño story and got Anne Rice.

>>9541269
like three thousand. They don't have to be related. You can combine texts from any source: blog posts, tweets, your diary, whatever

Here's lit's page one analysis

Copypasted "fart" several times and got DFW.

>>9541354
Should have been James Joyce.

try and get pynchon

>>9539685
>Submit five paragraphs of my current story
>Anne Rice
>Fuck
>Delete the last two paragraphs
>Dan Brown
>Someone literally slit my throat right now
>Delete one more paragraph
>Tolstoy

Be on the look out for my new two-paragraph novel, I guess.

did i win?

>>9541501
Heya Tim

>>9541501

Is that your facebook?

>>9541501
well this is embarassing

>>9539685
DFW and Agatha Christie lol

>Ernest Hemingway

Time to fucking kill myself

>>9541524
I laughed.

>>9541501
>Crunchyroll

wewlad

>>9541215
Looking good...

>>9541559
Would DFW have streamed or torrented anime?

>>9541501
This is just proof that /lit/ is full of kids and why I never trust anyone's opinion on here.

>>9541501
a hearty chuckle
thanks Tim

>>9541501
Hahaha

>>9541501
Holy shit Tim, lay off the pastries will ya, no wonder you're such a fat fuck
I'm just kidding Tim, you're a great lad

>>9541589
fuck I could really go for one of those right about now

>>9539709

>>9541589
XD cheers mate

What the fuck
I submitted a few hundred words from an intentionally hyperdense, pretentious story I worked on for a bit months ago
I don't know how this works.

>copy/paste "nigger" 1000x
>analyze text
>spits out Gertrude Stein

hmmm... makes you think...

>>9541614
>Input several different passages from Dostoyevsky
>Get Agatha Christie every time

>>9539685
I got James Joyce.

>>9541501
>facebook
>facebook
>twitch
>reddit
>mr poopy butthole
wow lad

>>9541652
wtf, is this what they call psyops?

>>9539848
what a whore. every recent sci fi book has a blurb from this fucking guy on it. yet I've never met a single fan of his work online or off.

i talked about wanting to hurt myself

>>9540912
>I write like a translation.

suck my dick, nerds.

testing

is Harry Harrison a good writer? That's who I got.

REEEEEEEE

delet

>>9542316
Don't feel bad, the telegraph has your back
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

I just wrote a short paragraph about how much my legs hurt.

>I write like Stephenie Meyer

okay.gif

I wrote about wanting to climb a mountain.

Alright

>>9541501

Post some pictures of Abby Mills she looks hot

>>9539685
Agatha Christie

>Submit my description on my waifu.pl page
>James Joyce
Well then, I guess I am a genius.

I got Agatha Christie
Is this good or bad?

lol this site is fucking dumb and guy

i just copy pasted a paragraph from Moby Dick and it said "You write like Charles Dickens"

dumb gay shit has like 10 people in its database, doesn't even recognize the best novel in the english language

>>9539685
Ursula K. De Quin. Is this bad? I haven't read her books.

>>9543594
Le Quin*

>put in 5 different mccarthy excerpts
>doesn't get him even once

Yeah, fuck off.

>>9543624
It depends on how it is done. It probably analyzes the text word by word, not by context. So it would be useless to try that method, unless you take the most common elements of those books. Say, the word most used by the author.
Machines do not see, read, know or understand.

>>9543624
It's just a meme website with the purpose of producing "i'm a le artiste" facebook posts. Don't take it seriously, it's all in good fun. If you try hard enough and know enough about an authors style on a surface level you can get that writer. I wrote a paragraph in the spirit of Portrait and got Joyce, for example. It's all in good fun though and not a test of skill.

>>9539709
Computers are the real fortune tellers after all. It's a sign that the human race is finally completely disposable.

>>9543594
Ehh she does decent place writing. I've only read her short stories. In my opinion not exactly worth reading.

Put in the last sonnet of a crown

Didn't even know he wrote poetry

wtf i love farts now

O shi...

Bram Stoker

>>9541642
Probably anything with repetition gets Stein

Putting in shorter entries seems to get you more diverse results

>ie. not Anne Rice

>>9539685
>I write like Agatha Christie
wtf

>>9541215
>paste two different bits of my writing
>receive two completely different results

>put four paragraphs in from novel i'm writing
>get stephen king, first one
>next is stephanie meyer
>next is DFW
>next is arthur conan doyle

fuck

>write a paragraph about a guy walking down a wet hallway
>HG Wells
>do the same thing but with more synonyms and alliteration
>George Orwell
Hmmmm

Each time I do this I get H.G Wells or DFW (first time I did it I got Dickens however my writing was vastly different back the) so I do think that their is a certain algorithm at play, but it is certainly one with varying issues.

Never read Nabokov and couldn't see him in this thread. I uploaded my college work however.

>First submission
>Anne Rice

>Second submission
>Kurt Vonnegut

>Third submission
>Cory Doctorow

>Fourth submission
>Anne Rice

FUCK

Although I like the Vampire Chronicles movie

>>9539685
>daniel defoe
nigga what

>>9539685
>copy and paste paragraph from Journey to the End of the Night by Céline
>You write like Ernest Hemingway!

Is this bullshit? I just input,

>resdtyglkiomnerawhjktgbfhjwersabglhhjqewrb >fthjewbsjhtfkrbsedhjltgbraejhlbtgkaerhbtghjlarebngjlkbnearhjlgbnljhkeadfbgnklhreanbhgljhkaefndbglkjadfhnblj>hkgnbfadklhjgbn >klhjfdnbhgkljhfhnbdakljghnadfkljhgnkjlafdhgkfdahngkjlhdfaslkgjadfhnjghdfalkjghadflkjghkalfdsghkjuafdhgkja dhgoiafdhjkgafdkjhgnblkjadfhglkjadfhglhjkadfhgaoekruhgiuadfghiaduhgiuoahreiighdasjfgnkfjdgnvbkzjidfgnhd usi"

and got Agatha Christie.

>>9544133
literally copied excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov and got Charles Dickens, you might be up to something here bud

>James Fenimore Cooper

>>9539685
cool

>Let us poop then, you and I,
>When the feces is spread out against the sky
>Like a poopy excreted upon a toilet;
>Let us poop, out certain half-digested eats,
>The microwaved reheats
>Of restless nights in one-night port-o-hells
>And sawdust in my butt from oyster-shells:
>Poops that follow like a tedious argument
>Of hideous excrement
>To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
>Oh, do not ask, “Where is it?”
>Let the restrooms see our piss-shit.

Mark Twain

>>9544721
Is this one of Mozart's poems?

>>9540832
"The Long Goodbye" and "The Little Sister" are his best work. "The Little Sister" is also one of the most cynical and bitter books I've read.

I got Poe, rate my text

It might be uncouth of me to say being as I am an uneducated member of the proletariat, but the "philosophy" being created in modern day academia is quite worthless. So much time and effort is spent reading and rereading older texts that it seems they've lost all ability to form their own thoughts and opinions on anything. The study of older texts isn't not useful but when you spend you're entire career zooming in closer and closer, endlessly cutting the text into smaller and smaller pieces desperate to try and find some yet undiscovered hidden meaning you become uselessly myopic in your views.

Socrates did not spend his time in a library cloistering himself off from the world in a vain attempt to obtain knowledge. Rather he took what he could from his predecessors and analyzed and quantified it not through rigorous study but through debate with others. If philosophy is an attempt to answer questions of the utmost importance then it stands to reason that the best way to learn the answer is to start by actually asking the question. Modern philosophers, a term I use with the highest amount of condescension possible, pose the question to a book, and unfortunate as it may be I've never known a book to talk back to me. For every text that exists there exists two things to be gained. Questions that can be used to attempt to divine the truth and the meanings that you project onto the book yourself.

For every author ninety percent of the meaning of the book is only known to himself, sure they can write a few things on a page, but what about the context of the creation. Why was the book created, for whom, at what time, what was excised from the passages, what added and when, just how many revisions has it gone through, why is it worded the way it is and why, and most importantly what was the author thinking not just when the work was wrote but during the creation of every line. Scholars can study context and lives of these people for years endlessly striving to capture the context of creation, but what they're after is unobtainable. In the end the true meaning of the work dies with the author. All that's left is some words on a page and the meanings ascribed to them by people who will never understand what they truly meant.

>Agatha Christie
Oh

dont hit on me silly boys

>Stephen King and JK Rowling
should i kill myself?

vonnegut

This was unexpected. The last time I did this a few years ago, I kept getting Tolkien. Did they change the algorithm or did I change my style?

>>9539816
>>9539824
>>9542595
It's about writing style and word usage you dumbfucks. It doesn't care about your shitty stories. Still shit considering for translations such a thing will be dependent on the translator, being as plenty of writers never wrote anything in English. I doubt it analyses it across different languages or that it would be accurate in doing so.

cory doctorow

>>9546216
accurate

>copy paste an essay i wrote for class that scored high marks
>my teacher is a huge DFW nerd
>"You write like David Foster Wallace"
>i've never even read DFW