July 13, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

again with the nameless dread!

So there’s this web application that does a corpus analysis of your writing and compares it to others….I chucked this post at it.

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I suppose Charlie Stross is right in linking the Lovecraft mythos and international politics. Further evidence – I tried the post before that one, about satellites and private finance initiatives, and got the same result.

Update: But when I write for Stable & Principled…

I write like
Ian Fleming

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

1 Comment on "again with the nameless dread!"

Douglas Kretzmann
July 13, 2010 4:34 pm

well, international politics/war profiteering is a kind of underworld full of ancient horrors.. I can see getting Lovecraftian.

I applied the analysis to four different blog posts of mine, and got:
Margaret Atwood
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kurt Vonnegut
James Joyce
which is flattering but scarcely accurate.

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