There’s a rather nifty website here called I Write Like which does an analysis of your writing style and compares you to a famous author. I took a sample of my own writing using some text out of a blog entry titled ‘The Dinner Party‘ (June 2009) and the result was:
Arthur Conan Doyle
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
I was hoping I would end up with someone a bit more contemporary to be honest.
I also used some text from Pat’s blog entry The Bachelor Weekend (July 2009) and apparently he writes like Chuck Palahniuk. I took Matt’s blog entry The rugby meet up.. (July 2009) and apparently his style is reminiscent of H.G Wells.
i got David Foster Wallace
I looked him up and he was some dude that hung himself 🙁