Mark Twain. Wikipedia.
Well, do you? (Not that it’s a bad thing, especially if you are a woman.)
More importantly, which great writer do you emulate? Jane Austen? Homer? H.G. Wells?
Thanks to computer nerds with way too much time on their hands, the answers to these questions are just a few mouse clicks away.
Enter your blog URL (or any other) into the data cruncher at GenderAnalyzer.com, and it will quickly guess the author’s sex. Dateline>City of Angels garnered a 64% masculinity quotient, which your humble blogger is perfectly comfortable with since he’s not afraid to show his feminine side every now and then.
Even more interesting is oFaust.com, which compares your prose to 71 classic masterpieces by 21 famous authors to determine whose it most resembles. Here Dateline>City of Angels got a 17% match with Mark Twain (pictured.)
Incredible. As a junior in high school, my favorite class was “Laughter in Literature,” an elective dealing with American satire. Clemens was by far my best-loved humorist, probably due to his cynical streak. Course assignments included crafting our own parodies, and our teacher Ms. Rosencranz often remarked on how much my style echoed Twain’s.
I guess we writers really do retain all that stuff we learn in high school English.
Ms. Rosencranz would be so proud.
