I thought it bizarre when friend Chris Lott dropped a sample of his writing into I Write Like… and was pegged as his (presumably) favorite author, David Foster Wallace. I gave it a go on my lunch break, and was surprised to see myself aligned with my favorite writer based on a short story I drafted this summer:
Re-testing of the system with other short stories confirmed the Nabokov link, and added 2x Jane Austen, 2x James Joyce, and 1x Dan Brown. I’ll just comment that, Dan Brown aside, I’ve read significant amounts of each Nabokov, Austen, and Joyce in the past 2 years that these stories were drafted.
