There is a website that analyzes your writing. It compares the word choices and style of your sample piece to that of published authors. Of course in the end you find out which author, according to the program's statistical analysis, your writing mostly resembles. I was curious to see if my writing style would match any of the many authors who I admire and love to read. Imagine my surprise, at this outcome....
To be fair, I have never actually read any of Stephen King's novel because I am a huge scaredy cat. The level of horror I can handle is not much above finding out that I write like Stephen King - and even this news is bound to give me nightmares.
P.S. After recovering from the shock, I had various other writing samples analyzed and never got the same author twice. It made me feel much better because I don't think I would make it in the horror genre. I once wrote about a troll and had a good friend review it. He commented that my troll is never believably scary - and after reading my story I had to agree. However, it was too frightening for me to create a scarier version.
