The virally popular new website I Write Like analyzes your writing and matches its style with famous authors. Who’s your literary twin?
According to I Write Like, Saturday I was churning out prose like David Foster Wallace (I used my blog post as a sample), while the previous week my novel-in-progress was punching out the dialog like Chuck Palahniuk ( I wish ). But I’m not the only one spending my time with this clever website by software developers Coding Robots, more than 200,000 other people have taken it for a drive since its release on July 8th.
The website’s creator has said that it’s still a work in progress and that they’re in the process of “training the database” by adding more literary works; it’s only using a database of forty authors at the moment. But that hasn’t stopped writers like William Gibson from finding out that he writes like Haruki Murakami. That’s actually not much of a surprise.
So give it a spin. Just enter any English text ― blog post, short story, unfinished novel ― at least three paragraphs in length and find your match.

