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Who do you write like?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Nothing like a bit of self-analysis to distract one from replying to very important emails. This little gem made itself known to me on Twitter (source of many time-wasting titbits). Simply insert your latest blog, chapter of your unfinished book or whatever sample of writing you have to hand, and discover which famous author’s style you emulate…

Check out I Write Like…

I’ve taken the liberty of analysing the A&B staff based on recent blogs and these are my findings:

Georgina – Rudyard Kipling

Chiara – H.P. Lovecraft

Lesley - Neil Gaiman

Susie – Charles Dickens

Christina – David Foster Wallace

And me – Chuck Palahniuk

Who’d have thought?

Lara Crisp, Managing Editor

chiara Says:


Great. I tested this three times and it’s still H P Lovecraft, whose works were apparently “deeply pessimistic and cynical”. What does that say about me…? I desperately tried a fourth test – Kurt Vonnegut (“one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century”). I’ll be using the second comparison, thank you…

Posted on March 18th, 2011 at 2:16 pm

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