Whom do you write like?

The writing process, writing advice, and updates on your work in progress
angusbearn
Posts: 2
Joined: July 31st, 2010, 7:44 am
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by angusbearn » July 31st, 2010, 7:56 am

Hasn't 'whom' become a pomposity? It gives me the crawlies. Maybe because I've never understood it. Subject. Object. Whatever... Whom agrees?

Krista G.
Posts: 192
Joined: December 7th, 2009, 4:47 pm
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by Krista G. » July 31st, 2010, 10:48 am

I plugged in two short excerpts from my WIP a few weeks ago. The results: J.K. Rowling on one, P.G. Wodehouse on the other. I'm pretty happy with being compared to those writers:) And apparently I need to start going by my initials...
Author of THE REGENERATED MAN (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, Winter 2015)
Represented by Kate Schafer Testerman of kt literary
www.motherwrite.blogspot.com

daydreamin
Posts: 3
Joined: July 27th, 2010, 9:05 pm
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by daydreamin » August 2nd, 2010, 10:23 pm

When I put in an excerpt where one character is referred to as 'The Tiger' I got Rudyard Kipling

Aurelius
Posts: 5
Joined: August 5th, 2010, 3:23 pm
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by Aurelius » August 7th, 2010, 5:39 pm

Oh, this thing is funny. Apparently:

- in my blog my writing is like Cory Doctorow;

- in my seriously-toned WIP my writing is like Chuck Palahniuk;

- and in my more humorous WIP, where the character is supposed to be a little crazy and/or schizo, has the worst ADD in the history of ever, and curses a lot: my writing is like William Shakespeare.

The third one is what cracked me up.

Halcyon
Posts: 2
Joined: August 7th, 2010, 6:58 pm
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by Halcyon » August 7th, 2010, 7:28 pm

This is a very interesting site. For my first novel, a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy, it said overwhelmingly that I wrote like Chuck Palahniuk.

Then, for my second one, an urban fantasy sans apocalypse, suddenly I write like Stephen King.

I find that interesting because I have felt for awhile that the two novels are very different in tone and style, but I am at a loss as to why or how, exactly.

Hrmz. ~rubbing chin thoughtfully~

ninafromnorway
Posts: 57
Joined: August 9th, 2010, 3:35 pm
Location: Norway
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by ninafromnorway » August 10th, 2010, 1:49 pm

Stephen King it says...
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

User avatar
Mike Dickson
Posts: 104
Joined: August 13th, 2010, 2:37 pm
Location: Minneapolis
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by Mike Dickson » August 13th, 2010, 2:57 pm

Looks like I write like James Joyce. Hmmm.

User avatar
Mike Dickson
Posts: 104
Joined: August 13th, 2010, 2:37 pm
Location: Minneapolis
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by Mike Dickson » August 13th, 2010, 2:59 pm

Did it again with my blog and it came up with William Gibson.

User avatar
tanvi02
Posts: 11
Joined: August 5th, 2010, 3:22 am
Contact:

Re: Whom do you write like?

Post by tanvi02 » August 19th, 2010, 6:16 am

well i dont know....and as if for now im a new writer i do not think i write like anybody but i have my own style that will develop with time...but i want to write like virgina woolf or like paulo coelho because i love their piece of work...that is simply amazing....

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests