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shadowsong26) wrote2013-06-18 11:40 pm
shadowsong26) wrote2013-06-18 11:40 pm
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So, out of curiosity/boredom/i found the link, I put the last hundred pieces I wrote through this analysis. (for clarification: each segment of a saturation counted as one piece. i skipped poetry and pointillisms, and an essay-style piece, because i wanted to stick to relatively typical fiction prose, and the giant Simon Saturation of Doom, because it would have put me well over 100 pieces.
The top five names that came up most often were, in order, Anne Rice (12), Cory Doctorow (10), Margaret Mitchell (9), Stephen King (8), and Dan Brown and William Shakespeare tied (6). Together, they make up just over 50% of my influences/I sound like them. Which is...sort of weird, because I don't read much Stephen King or Dan Brown. Also, does anyone know who the hell Cory Doctorow is? Never heard of him.
The next 20% was made up of Chuck Palahniuk (another one I've never heard of...), H. P. Lovecraft, J. K. Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer for some reason, each with 5%
In the last 29%, David Foster Wallace and Leo Tolstoy each got 4%, Arthur Clarke and Robert Louis Stevenson 3% each, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Gertrude Stein 2%, and with 1% each are Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Ian Fleming, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Mario Puzo, James Fenimore Cooper, and Jonathan Swift.
...so, apparently, my strongest influences are horror, florid romanticisim, thriller/action/adventure, Shakespeare, and whatever the hell Cory Doctorow writes. I have a smattering of a rapport with other classical writers' styles/influence, and even though I think I've read one thing by Tolstoy, he's a stronger influence than half the others. I only read the first Twilight book, and didn't much care for it at the time--didn't toxically hate it at that point, but didn't like it, either--and Harry Potter, which was a significant portion of my childhood, has no stronger influence in my own writing.
Go figure.
So, anyone else bored enough to do this? I'm curious as to what comes up.
(Or if you have any comments on mine.)
The top five names that came up most often were, in order, Anne Rice (12), Cory Doctorow (10), Margaret Mitchell (9), Stephen King (8), and Dan Brown and William Shakespeare tied (6). Together, they make up just over 50% of my influences/I sound like them. Which is...sort of weird, because I don't read much Stephen King or Dan Brown. Also, does anyone know who the hell Cory Doctorow is? Never heard of him.
The next 20% was made up of Chuck Palahniuk (another one I've never heard of...), H. P. Lovecraft, J. K. Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer for some reason, each with 5%
In the last 29%, David Foster Wallace and Leo Tolstoy each got 4%, Arthur Clarke and Robert Louis Stevenson 3% each, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Gertrude Stein 2%, and with 1% each are Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Ian Fleming, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Mario Puzo, James Fenimore Cooper, and Jonathan Swift.
...so, apparently, my strongest influences are horror, florid romanticisim, thriller/action/adventure, Shakespeare, and whatever the hell Cory Doctorow writes. I have a smattering of a rapport with other classical writers' styles/influence, and even though I think I've read one thing by Tolstoy, he's a stronger influence than half the others. I only read the first Twilight book, and didn't much care for it at the time--didn't toxically hate it at that point, but didn't like it, either--and Harry Potter, which was a significant portion of my childhood, has no stronger influence in my own writing.
Go figure.
So, anyone else bored enough to do this? I'm curious as to what comes up.
(Or if you have any comments on mine.)