Writing styles

What kind of style do you try to write with Lain? What writers heavily influence you and the genre you try to create? I've just started doing academic writing for university, and it is the most boring thing. It restricts the unique style that I often try to create in my own writing. Never forget that how crazy or boring or stupid your own style, it is your own style. > 2071: In the far flung-future, the universe is still expanding. Bounty hunters, gathering in the spaceship "BEBOP", will play their own game freely without fear of risk. They must create new dreams by breaking traditional styles. We must create new films by doing the same. The work, which becomes a new genre unto itself, will be called "COWBOY BEBOP".

Kim Stanley Robinson, Aldous Huxley, Neal Stephenson

A lot of my influences come from Lovecraft's works, such as Mountains of Madness and Colour out of Space.

Um, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Harrison, E.C. Tubb, Phillip K. Dick... Sigh. Yeah, I'm a wanker.

https://iwl.me/ This thing is supposed to analyse your writing style and compare you to famous authors. I got Cory Doctorow. GOD DAMN IT WHY

>>1442 Every time I try that thing, I get completely different results. When they first started, it told me I write like Gertrude Stein. Another time, I got Tom Wolfe. Just now, it gave me Stephen King. I've concluded that it's just a magic 8-ball with author names instead of vague predictions.

>>1444 >shakes 8 ball >gives Stephanie Meyer

I got Margaret Atwood which is weird because friends keep mentioning her and not at all in reference to those new TV series either. I've never read her books, but she is on CBC radio literally ever other week and she's always interesting to listen to. Maybe it's another sign, I'm supposed to start reading her books.

>>1444 Whenever I try those analyzers it returns David Foster Wallace[1]. [1] The guy that was in an interview that time while taking Nardil[2] [2] A.k.a. Phenelzine Sulfate - ® PARKE DAVIS — an antidepressant (monoamine oxidase inhibitor) used to treat depression.

>>1442 > Cory Doctorow Me too, right after it gave me Margeret Atwood as mentioned a couple of posts back. Thing is, it was seperate parts of the same story. I figured out, it really just searches for keywords and names a famous author that uses similar ones so it can pat you on the back and make you feel special. Maybe it measures the length of sentences and some other surface things but it definitely does not analyze your actual style. This thing is a joke, Lains. Sorry.

Apparently I write like Arthur C Clarke, which is not a bad thing to me, although I wish I wrote more like Issac Asimov.

>You write like James Fenimore Cooper. O_O

I spent 5 ish hours today trying to write academically and got 400 words out when I wanted 500. Then I went home and braindumped 500 words in 5 minutes.

>>1442 i write like james joyce, it says not sure if that's a good thing honestly

Agatha Christie apparently. I can live with that. I try to match my style to what I'm writing. My favourite is Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett comedy with lots of weird asides and subtle jokes.