J. Mark Miller | A Writer's Fantasy |

PWxyz linked to a fun little bobble today at GalleyCat, a little program called I Write Like.

Plug in a sample of your writing, and it spits out the name of a famous author whose style you emulate. When I plugged in the first chapter of my latest novel, Rise of the Sun King, I got this result:

I write like
Oscar Wilde

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

When I entered the first draft in progress of my children’s story, Ethan’s Magic Leaf, I got this:

I write like
Raymond Chandler

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

How about a sample of my sci-fi short story, The Last Silent Place?

I write like
Douglas Adams

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

How about the first two chapters of my first novel, The Swords of Xigara?

I write like
H. G. Wells

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

Best of all, the utility was consistent in its selection of authors. No matter how many times I plugged in the same writing sample, it always spit back the same result.

Who do you write like? Go find out.

I’ve had a Kindle for a couple of years now, and just got around to hacking it a bit. Nothing major, just customizing my screensaver images. After searching around the internet I couldn’t find very many quality custom screensaver images, especially images of authors. I found some really nice images of Asimov, Tolkien, and few others, but little else.

Go here to find them, as well as a good short explanation on how to put custom screensaver images on a first generation Kindle. You can search Google and find many sites offering instructions for the newer Kindles and the Nook.

So, I decided to make my own images. Some of these I’ll put on my own Kindle, others I won’t. Either way, I’m posting them here for your use. I’m assuming these would also work on the Nook, and since my wife just got one, I may get a chance to find out.

One of the challenges was to find photos of the authors good enough to use. There are some authors I wanted to make an image of, but couldn’t find a large enough photo. If you want an image made of an author I don’t post, let me know if you know where I can find a good sized image and I’ll consider making one.

I’ll post a few at a time over the next few days. Let’s start at the beginning of the alphabet shall we? I’d love to hear from you if you use them. Enjoy.

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