Day 2366 - A Blog Written Like Dan Brown?

Hey there internet,

I found a website today, called www.iwl.me, that analyzes your writing and then compares it to famous authors. Needless to say, I was fairly intrigued, and I thought I would try it out.

Here are the results:

"I Write Like" tells me that most of my stories are written like David Foster Wallace. Some are Kurt Vonnegut. My essays are like H.P. Lovecraft. My last few blogs are written like Stephen King and Charles Dickens. After discovering this, I am feeling pretty confident in my writing ability.

But then it gets better. . .

Apparently my resume is written like Vladimir Nabokov.

That crappy story I wrote about Atilla and the ponies?--written like H.G. Wells.

The speech that "the Master" gives at the end of Manos: The Hands of Fate?--written like William Shakespeare.

And I'm sure that when you all read this excerpt from craigslist you immediately think of Chuck Palahniuk:

"Free dog kennel. Upper part of the plastic is cracked. First come, first gets. No holding."

I start to think that this website might not be all that reliable, so I do some fact checking. I find out that the site's programmer is a 27-year-old Russian guy named Dmitry Chestnykh. So on a base level we should probably assume that the works written in English may not be accurate.

In other words, my resume is definitely like Nabokov.

Just thought you should know,

-jim.

P.S. I'm seeing Inception tonight. Super stoked.