Through the magic of the Internet, I have found a site that will analyze your writing and compare it to a famous writer. I found this fascinating and wasted more time than I would like to admit analyzing different parts of my work.
The site in question is: http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2010/07/09/i-write-like/
For some reason, the first thing I analyzed was an essay I wrote for a class on bowling. It was one of the easiest classes I 'd ever taken and I did not take this paper seriously. I used a lot of humor to fill up the two pages that were required. For fun, here is said paper:
I also found that Wodehouse had a great lyric writing career, which put him in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. This mainly came about after he co-wrote the book that musical "Anything Goes" was based off of.
On another note, I feel like this last name just needs to be shouted after a victory or something. I truly wish my boy PG did this whenever he won Scrabble. "Aw yisss, that is a triple word score. WODEHOUSE!"
I didn't really know what to do with this post. I think I just created it to create a reason for why I did not do too much on this fine day.
The Daumenator has weighed, measured, and found wanting
The site in question is: http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2010/07/09/i-write-like/
For some reason, the first thing I analyzed was an essay I wrote for a class on bowling. It was one of the easiest classes I 'd ever taken and I did not take this paper seriously. I used a lot of humor to fill up the two pages that were required. For fun, here is said paper:
Date
|
Score
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Average
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09/10/12
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116
|
116
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09/12/12
|
99
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107.5
|
09/19/12
|
129
|
114.6666667
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09/26/12
|
119
|
115.75
|
10/03/12
|
119
|
116.4
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10/05/12
|
116
|
116.3333333
|
10/08/12
|
126
|
117.7142857
|
10/10/12
|
127
|
118.875
|
10/15/12
|
106
|
117.4444444
|
10/17/12
|
88
|
114.5
|
10/22/12
|
158
|
118.4545455
|
10/24/12
|
146
|
120.75
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Date
|
Score
|
Average
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10/29/12
|
127
|
121.2307692
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10/31/12
|
115
|
120.7857143
|
11/05/12
|
158
|
123.2666667
|
11/07/12
|
103
|
122
|
11/12/12
|
146
|
123.4117647
|
11/14/12
|
147
|
124.7222222
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11/19/12
|
133
|
125.1578947
|
11/21/12
|
132
|
125.5
|
11/26/12
|
135
|
125.952381
|
11/28/12
|
168
|
127.8636364
|
12/03/12
|
106
|
126.9130435
|
12/05/12
|
111
|
126.25
|
I started this class with the average knowledge of a person who bowls recreationally. I knew how to keep score, heavier balls create more pin action, and that taking steps while bowling a ball will add speed as it travels down an oiled up lane. Bowling practice never occurred and the serious concentration that I usually put into a sport only came when I was trying to complete a spare in the tenth frame so I didn’t have to turn in my rented shoes so soon. If I ever tried to aim, it involved me bowling slowly because something in my brain told me that was better. I usually could break 100; my highest score I ever recorded was a 124. In conclusion, my previous experience of bowling was lacking the consistency and fundamentals that I learned in this course.
I truly do not believe I got better at bowling. If you bring up the fact that my scores improved over the course of time, I will assert that I simply became more consistent. You could say that I was a precise bowler. By precise, I mean the true definition where the same results are group heavily in one area, which is not necessarily the center. My scores were high on days that I found where that spot was consistently and it happened to be the center. My scores were low on days when I thought it was going to be as it was the day before.
My consistency definitely improved the day I mastered the 5-step approach. Two days beforehand, I was convinced that the 4-step was my kind of shot. That all changed when I noticed that there was a divider between the approach and the carpet behind it that perfectly fit the arch of my shoes. The 5-step approach allowed me to never cross the foul line and bowl, somewhat straight, down the lane. If you look at my score, I think I improved on a linear basis, so there is not exact moment when I started improving. But mentally, it started when I got the hang of the 5-step approach.
I briefly sampled hooking the ball. After desperately trying to figure out why my wrist hurt so much after 3 frames, I immediately switched back to straight bowling. Straight bowling gave clear answers to why I missed. Hook bowling has many reasons why it didn’t work. I prefer simple answers to my mistakes and straight bowling provided that answer.
I confess that I already knew about spare conversions from spending a lot of time on Wii Bowling. It may be a stupid answer, but watching a replay of your ball in slow motion explains most things you need to know about spare conversions. Overall, I was the spare master on our team. If you look at our team packet, we started keeping track of strikes, spares, and turkeys. I was leading the leading spare converter in our group by a mile and that only continued as we stopped keeping track when the tournament started. As for improving, I can only bring up my old friends consistency and precision for coming in to save the day.
My highest score was a 168 recorded late in the semester. It came during a win when we needed it most. Unfortunately, that was when we found out that no one could get 1st place, save for the team that did. I believe we achieved second, but that has yet to be officially announced.This has been analyzed to best match the style of P.G. Wodehouse. I confess that I did not know who this fine gentleman was until I found that I wrote a paper that was similar to his style of writing. You may not know who he is, but Wikipedia does:
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE ; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of a pre- and post-World War I English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education and youthful writing career.I found this to be quite interesting. But kept reading. it turns out, one of the things that Wodehouse was known for was writing about a butler named Jeeves. At that point, this person became awesome. I had no idea that Jeeves was an actual person. I thought that Jeeves was just a stereotypical butler name that people used because it sounded very British and formal.
I also found that Wodehouse had a great lyric writing career, which put him in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. This mainly came about after he co-wrote the book that musical "Anything Goes" was based off of.
On another note, I feel like this last name just needs to be shouted after a victory or something. I truly wish my boy PG did this whenever he won Scrabble. "Aw yisss, that is a triple word score. WODEHOUSE!"
After I analyzed my silly bowling essay, I decided to sample some of my previous works. I submitted last week's article on the Random Word Generator to see what style it matched. It most matched the syle of H.P. Lovecraft:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.I then submitted a cover letter I wrote recently for a job and found that it matched the style of Ursula K. Le Guin. I know her for writing A Wizard of Earthsea.Wikipedia knows her for:
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.
I found that this makes sense because... um... I have no idea why. My best guess is that it is complicated and coarse writing and so is Ursula's. My cover letter wasn't fiction (to the best of my knowledge) but I accept that there are many different styles of writing.
On a different note, I analyzed everything up until this sentence and found that it matched the style of PG Wodehouse all over again. I then realized that it could be due to the fact that I copied my bowling essay, which could skew the results. I then submitted everything that was written by me for this blog post and got that I was a PG Wodehouse writer again.
In truth I am happy with the results. Jeeves is a truly British man and I feel it is a true mark of greatness to follow in the footsteps of a great writer.
One more thing before I leave: if you keep typing in "herp derp" over and over again, your work best matches that of Stephanie Meyer.
