You too can write like somebody famous

by Michael Alexander on July 15, 2010

I write like  David Foster Wallace, according to I Write Like. The site employs a statistical analysis tool that analyzes a sample of your writing and matches it with that of a well-known writer.

Any bit of text will work: blog post, Word doc copy, journal entry—pretty much anything other than a tweet.

According to Wikipedia:

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923–2006).

Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace “one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years.”

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

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