bollocks

stumbled across a little website/ programme that claims to tell you who you write like.
i'll have a go at that i thought.

choose a blog piece. chucked it in. the statistical tools of the programme kick in and it kicks out who i write like.
yeah like it works.

first piece in.
first author out: william gibson. oh yeah i am liking this. of course me and the father of cyberpunk have a lot in commmon. he has invented a genre, i have read his books. we are best buddies.

second piece in.
second author: mario puzzo. even better. i loved the godfather as a book, loved it even more as a movie (and i am just about to watch godfather part 2). this programme is amazing. who knew puzzo wrote so much? not me. ok i was less than keen on his superman screenplay; hey can't love everything.

third piece in.
james joyce. they are saying i write like james joyce. might be the sweary words i use. might be the odd punctuation i use. it might be the dense multi-layered post-modern breaking the fourth wall style i employ (which is a polite way of saying: makes little sense). me and james joyce, who would have thunk it. creative kissing cousins.

just chucked this bit in and it tells me i write like cory doctrow.
who?
just kidding cory i know who you are, i download your books because you are keen on the copyfight, so i think it is only fair i don't pay for your work either.

thank fuck it didn't say i shared a style with jeffrey archer.