Here we are, nearly a month past Bloomsday, and what do I discover?
James Joyce! 😎
Except that it’s F. Scott Fitzgerald I really try and emulate… :-/
Thanks to David McIntee for the link…
On Writing Styles I Emulate
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So do I, apparently, even though the lines I wrote that you once quoted were emulating Shakespeare. Maybe it’s a Doctor Who thing.
I don’t know how it figures it, Cameron. 🙂
I used some text I’d written for work to get Joyce. If I use this post on Doctor Who‘s “The Big Bang” I get Douglas Adams.
A friend of mine keeps getting Dan Brown.
Maybe it works like a dart board?
My Sherlock Holmes drabbles are, unsurprisingly, all…
Arthur Conan Doyle
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While “The Curse of the Giants” is…
P. G. Wodehouse
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I suspect it may work better on shorter pieces than longer pieces.
I got “James Joyce” from a six-paragraph sample. When I plugged in each paragraph individually, I got three James Joyces, one P.G. Wodehouse, and two Stephen Kings (although one of the Stephen King paragraphs contained “a horde of seven-foot-tall humanoid snakes,” so little surprise there).