What do Steampunk and Glitter have in common?

I found a fun little web app today via StumbleUpon. It’s called “I Write Like”. The basic idea is for the writer (namely: me) to copy/paste a few decent sized paragraphs of their work into this bot that with then analyze their writing style and tell them who they write like. I found it amusing and put in a few different samples from different things and got some surprising results.

Test 1: Random Snippet from an old RPG site
Yes, you read that right. I used to be one of those nerds that sat online for hours and wrote stories with other nerds. It helped flex some old muscles though.

Result: William Gibson
(All of the following is directly from Wikipedia) William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.[16] Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[17] He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.

(Now for my opinions) This guy has handled stuff like steampunk, cyber noir, dystopia, cyperpunk, and all things dark and futuristic. Where has he been my whole life?

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Test 2: As Yet Untitled and Unfinished Piece
Semi-Biographical and very funny, at least I think so. It’s three short stories, each based off one off Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Result: Chuck Palahniuk
If you don’t know who this guy is, you can just leave. Like, now.

Mr. Palahniuk wrote Fight Club, the badass book that would be a badass movie that would star Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. I haven’t seen/read Choke yet, but it’s probably just as insane. He’s a self-proclaimed romantic, but a described nihilist. I suppose he’s just open to interpretation.

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Test 3: Piece from an old joint project

Result: Stephenie Meyer
I really did feel a part of me die on the inside when I saw this.

Ms. Meyer is the woman to be held accountable for the sparkling vampires, Team Jacob, and the Twi-hards. I confess to reading the books in high school. I’ve even read her other, less well known, book. I prefer The Host to the Cullens any day. You can almost taste the difference in the novels. It’s sad.



To conclude, I was pretty happy with the first two. And then Twilight had to go and ruin everything like it always does. Stupid sparkling vampires.