I write like Stephen King (and a few others)

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin

Thanks to my good friend Chris Brady who is dean of Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University. His recent post “I write like lots of folks (and reflections on biblical scholarship)” in which he runs a few samples of his own writing through I Write Like and shares the result. He writes like several different people – depending on what he is writing.

  • A couple paragraphs from my blog post about America and Africa? I write like Stephen King. Kewl.
  • A couple paragraphs from my sermon yesterday on Genesis 18? I write like Cory Doctorow. (Not a clue.)
  • A couple paragraphs from my article on Israelian Hebrew and its possible influence on Late Biblical Hebrew? I write like Isaac Asimov. Hey.
  • It gets better(?). Different paragraphs from the same article? I write like Dan Brown.

Well there is a certain perverse consistency here. Stephen King and Isaac Asimov. Yay! But Dan Brown? Ugh.

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  • http://targuman.org/blog Chris Brady

    “Dead of the honors college”? It can be a trying job, but it really is quite lively. ;-)

    Now regarding Cory Doctorow. He is a great and thoughtful (if socialist) scifi writer and founder of Boing Boing. He believes strongly in anti-copyright and has made many of his novels and short stories available for free on his site http://craphound.com/. Start with his first, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I predict that you will like!

  • admin

    Awesomesauce and thanks for the good word about Cory Doctorow. Phew! A new author to explore!

    (Oh yeah. Caught the typo and was horrified. I think sometimes my fingers remember words not letters.)