The other day I accidentally came across a site called, iwritelike.com On this site you submit a sample of your writing and the site compares your writing style to successful authors. Now I've been accused of having an old fashioned style of writing, which is hardly surprising as I am in my seventies and learned to write in the nineteen forties and fifties so I tend to write in sentences rather than text. I was brought up reading Charles Dickens, HG Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle, so I expected to be compared to some obscure nineteenth century author. Instead I was compared to a writer named Cory Doctrow. Now to my shame I had no idea who Cory Doctrow was. I wasn't even sure if Cory Doctrow was a man or a woman until I did a little research. To my surprise he was not a nineteenth century writer, as I expected, but born in 1971, the year I was married.
It appears that Cory is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author so no comparisons with content, but he has won many awards so perhaps there is still a chance for me yet?
Sounds like an interesting place to visit. I have been compared to several well-known authors… You know… Flattery will get you everywhere… But I hardly get the readership in spite of all the honorary connection. Especially in short stories, I have written in several different styles. It just seems natural for me, spending my working life writing nonfiction, to experiment with styles that I've read along the line when it comes to fiction. I don't intentionally try to write like anyone, except I sometimes pick up what works from others' good work.
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